First food aid in three months reaches Damascus refugee camp
Besieged Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, Syria gets first food relief in three months
Male Afghan women's rights activist pose for media as they wear burqas to show their solidarity to Afghan women ahead of International Women's Day in Kabul
Male Afghan women's rights activist pose for media as they wear burqas to show their solidarity to Afghan women ahead of International Women's Day in Kabul March 5, 2015. A group of Afghan men marched through the capital, Kabul, on Thursday to draw attention to women's rights by donning head-to-toe burqas that for many people worldwide have come to symbolise the suppression of women. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail
China's top climate negotiator removed from leadership list
Xie Zhenhua had led China's negotiating team during talks aimed at securing a new global climate treaty
Myanmar military wins rare praise in war with ethnic Chinese rebels
Fighting erupted on Feb. 9 on the border with China, between government forces and ethnic Chinese rebels
Islamic State uses social media to groom British Muslim girls - think tank
The Quilliam Foundation estimates some 600 people from Britain, around 10 percent of them female, have travelled to Syria and Iraq
Myanmar urges China prevent rebel attacks from across their border
Fighting on the Myanmar-China border has forced tens of thousands of people from their homes, and about 30,000 of them have fled into China
Syria willing to try ceasefire: UN
The UN mediator on Syria says that the government appears willing to suspend bombardment of Aleppo, to allow a local ceasefire to be tested