Turkish-backed rebels on September 4 cleared Islamic State from Turkey's Syrian border, securing a 90 km (55 miles) corridor and marking a substantial gain in Ankara's plan to drive out Sunni militants and stop the advance of Syrian Kurdish fighters.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on September 5, the Japanese government said, the first such meeting in more than a year as Asia's two largest countries are locked in a territorial dispute.
A bomb blast in front of a railway station in Thailand’s southern province of Pattani killed one and injured three others.
Building the ASEAN Community and strengthening the bloc’s external relations will top the agenda of the 28th and 29th ASEAN Summits scheduled to take place in Laos’ capital city of Vientiane from September 6-8.
Turkey and its rebel allies opened a new line of attack in northern Syria on September 3, as Turkish tanks rolled across the border and Syrian fighters swept in from the west to take villages held by Islamic State.
China and the United States ratified the Paris agreement to cut climate-warming emissions on September 3, marking a major step toward the enactment of the pact as early as the end of the year and setting the stage for other countries to follow suit.
US President Barack Obama on September 3 pressed his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on territorial disputes in the South China Sea, urging Beijing to uphold its legal obligations and stressing the United States' commitments to its regional allies.
The US is considering to further ease sanctions against Myanmar as State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi will visit the White House from September 14-15.
Mayor of the Philippines’s Davao city Sara Duterte on September 3 accused the Abu Sayyaf, a notorious group of Islamic militants, of bombing a night market in Davao that took the lives of at least 14 people.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed on September 2 to draw up proposals this year to end a row over a group of disputed islands that has bedevilled relations between their countries for over 70 years.