Relatives gathered to mourn the 62 victims of a passenger jet crash in southern Russia on March 20 and officials warned an investigation could take weeks to determine the cause of the downing.

A Turkish member of the Islamic State militant group was responsible for March 19's suicide bombing in Istanbul that killed three Israelis and an Iranian, Turkey's interior minister said.

Syrian government negotiators at Geneva peace talks are coming under unaccustomed pressure to discuss something far outside their comfort zone: the fate of President Bashar al-Assad. And they are doing their best to avoid it.

VOV.VN - The EU and Turkey have sealed a deal to end the migrant flow. Turkey has agreed to take back all illegal migrants in Europe, and the EU has made membership concessions to Turkey.

Australia and Singapore have reiterated their commitment to the rights of states to freedom of navigation and overflight in the East Sea, amidst rising tension in the region caused by China’s unilateral acts.

Nearly 4 million Lao voters cast their ballots in the election of deputies to the eighth National Assembly (NA) and the provincial People’s Councils on March 20. 

Singapore will enhance security measures against rising terrorism threat, local media reported on March 18, quoting Minister for Home Affairs and Law K. Shanmugam as saying in a speech on March 18.

The Philippines and the US held the sixth bilateral strategic dialogue in Washington DC on March 17 and 18 to reinforce and enhance the alliance across a broad range of shared interests and priorities.

Dozens of people were killed in a series of air strikes on the city of Raqqa in northern Syria on March 19, a monitoring group and activists said, as Damascus and Moscow waged attacks on areas controlled by Islamic State.

A US Marine who was part of the coalition fighting Islamic State was killed in a rocket attack by the militant group in northern Iraq, the Pentagon said in a statement on March 19.