Hitler, Kazakhstan and editorial struggle
Much controversy surrounds the recent issue of Kazakh-language magazine devoted to Hitler's personality.
Kazakhstani militants in Syria
The number of Kazakhstanis participating in military actions in Syria has been overstated.
Continuing Syria refugee crisis 'unconscionable': UN
Syria's civil war has forced more than nine million people from their homes, creating the world's largest displaced population, the UN said on Friday, describing the continuing conflict as "unconscionable".
Kazakhstan calls for peaceful negotiations in Ukraine
Kazakhstan urges Ukraine and Russia to solve the conflict through negotiations and not through a military intervention.
S. Koreans head for bittersweet family reunion in North
A group of 82 elderly, frail South Koreans, two of them in ambulances, left for the North Korean border Thursday to attend the first reunion in more than three years for families divided by the Korean War.
China and Taiwan to hold historic talks
China and Taiwan will hold their first government-to-government talks Tuesday since they split 65 years ago after a brutal civil war -- a symbolic yet historic move between the former bitter rivals.
Park proposes new family reunions with N. Korea
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Monday proposed fresh reunions of families separated by the Korean War after a previous bid was cancelled by Pyongyang, and promised increased humanitarian aid to the impoverished North.
South Sudan warring parties set for direct peace talks
South Sudan's warring parties were set to begin direct talks Saturday in a bid to end the conflict pushing the world's youngest nation towards civil war as fighting intensified for control of a key oil town.
Japan PM Abe visits Yasukuni war shrine
Japan's nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe paid tribute at Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni war shrine on Thursday, in a move Beijing condemned as "absolutely unacceptable".
Kim urges N. Korea military to bolster combat readiness
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has urged the country's military to bolster its combat readiness, saying a war could break out "without any prior notice", state media reported Wednesday.
Kazakhstan not sending peacekeepers to Syria
According to Kazakhstan ex-Permanent Representative in the UN Senator Byrganym Aitimova, Kazakhstan will not send any peacekeepers to Syria.
Fears of civil war as violence spreads in South Sudan
The United Nations is warning that violence was spreading in South Sudan, as fierce fighting in the world's youngest nation prompted the US to evacuate Americans and other foreigners.
Museum takes possession of long-lost Nazi diary
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum took possession Tuesday of a Nazi war criminal's long-lost diary and posted it online to help researchers decipher the thinking behind Adolf Hitler's "final solution."
Afghan villages where Taliban rule at night
Jahanzeb says he can no longer live in his home village in eastern Afghanistan where, when night falls, fear rules in "the kingdom of the Taliban".
N. Korea confirms US man held, publishes 'confession'
North Korea confirmed Saturday that an American veteran of the Korean War has been detained for "hostile acts" against the communist country and said he had released a written apology confessing to his alleged crimes.
Syria refugees in Lebanon drowning in poverty, says Oxfam
Desperate Syrian refugee families in Lebanon are slipping further into debt and poverty, affecting their children's education and their dignity, an international aid agency said Thursday.
ISAF countries should prevent destabilization of CA region
Security Council of Kazakhstan thinks that coalition countries in Afghanistan have no a moral right to allow destabilization of the region.
Syria becoming 'Mediterranean Afghanistan': Turkey president
Syria could become a "Mediterranean Afghanistan" if the international community does not act to end its civil war.
N. Korea warns of 'all-out war'
North Korea on Saturday issued a fresh warning of an "all-out war", urging the United States to stop military drills and what it described as "nuclear blackmail".
'War' on illegal drugs is failing: study
The global war on heroin, cocaine and cannabis is failing to stem supply, as prices of these drugs have tumbled while seizures of them have risen.