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The Biden administration shares the concerns of its predecessors regarding China's activities involving Confucius institutes in the United States, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said during a press briefing.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has launched ground forces drills in the southwest of the country near the Iraqi border.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force has launched a drill in southwestern Iran at the onset of the Islamic Revolution's 43rd year.

Iran's defense minister reacts to the Israeli regime's renewed aggressive rhetoric against the Islamic Republic, saying the country will serve a crushing response to whatever threat.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has called on Iran to "show restraint" after UN inspectors confirmed the country has started producing small amounts of uranium metal in the latest breach of Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

Russia hopes for the US to abandon its illegal stance of staying out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and retaining its sanctions against the Islamic Republic in order not to prompt Tehran to further reduce its obligations under the agreement.

President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday that Iran has observed no sign of goodwill from the new US Administration yet.

At least three Turkish soldiers have been killed during a new offensive against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, Turkey's Defense Ministry says.

A roadside bomb explosion has hit a convoy of trucks carrying equipment belonging to the US-led military coalition south of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

New Zealand has imposed a travel ban and cut ties with military leaders in Myanmar who ousted the Southeast Asian nation's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

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U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced sanctions against military leaders in Myanmar.

Myanmar's ruling general has ordered demonstrators to return to work or face "effective actions" as a civil disobedience campaign and nationwide protests continue to grow over the last week's military coup.

US President Joe Biden has levied sanctions on a number of military leaders in Myanmar following the February 1 coup which overthrew the country's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

The Myanmar coup unfolded on 1 February as the military arrested senior members of the newly-elected parliament right before it was due to convene for an inaugural session. State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other officials were put under house arrest.

"On February 1, prior to the scheduled seating of Burma's newly elected Parliament, the Burmese military detained a broad cross-section of civilian government leadership, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, civil society leaders, journalists, and human right activists. We have been clear: this was a coup, and we will not sit idly by."

"Today, the Biden administration launched a new sanctions regime in response to the Burmese military's coup against the democratically elected civilian government of Burma. In coordination with the issuance of a new Executive Order (E.O.), the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated, pursuant to that E.O., 10 individuals and three entities connected to the military apparatus responsible for the coup."

Members of Myanmar's often persecuted ethnic minorities Thursday joined a sixth day of growing nationwide protests against the military's overthrow of the civilian government.

Censorship, threats and internet blocks have created a climate of uncertainty in Myanmar since the military coup and could set press freedom back 10 years, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said.

The United States on Thursday announced new sanctions against Myanmar, also known as Burma, more than a week after the country's military overthrew the democratically elected government.