South Korea on April 5 deployed two Aegis destroyers to monitor North Korea, Yonhap reported.

South African troops will leave the Central African Republic, because the deal under which they were deployed has become void after the government was ousted, South African President Jacob Zuma said April 4, Al Jazeera reported, citing public broadcaster SABC.

North Korea has moved a missile with considerable range to the country's east coast, South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan Jin said April 4, AP reported.

The North Korean army has been cleared to attack the United States with nuclear strikes, according to an April 3 statement by the General Staff of the Korean People's Army, AFP reported.

Francois Bozize, the ousted president of the Central African Republic, has said that Chadian special forces led the final operation of the rebellion on March 23-24, helping the Seleka group seize power, the BBC reported April 3.

A Syrian military helicopter fired at a house in the town of Arsal along the Lebanon-Syria border on April 3, Xinhua reported, citing Lebanon's state-run National News Agency.

South Korea could use military action to ensure the safety of South Koreans working in a joint industrial zone in North Korea, South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan Jin said April 3, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

The Ugandan military suspended its operations in the Central African Republic to find the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels, Xinhua reported April 3.

Israel Defense Forces on April 2 responded with tank fire to shots fired from Syria that struck close to Israeli troops in the southern Golan Heights, according to an Israel Defense Forces statement.

South African troops are being withdrawn from the Central African Republic, a South African National Defense Union spokesman said April 2, SAPA reported.