Conflict
Thursday, January 22, 2015 - 06:31
Somalia's Shebab militants, Al-Qaeda's main affiliate in Africa, on Wednesday urged supporters in Europe to follow the example of Islamist gunmen who carried out attacks in Paris.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 09:09
Current events in Yemen will influence the future of hundreds of millions of dollars of American aid to a country on the frontline of a fight against the world’s most dangerous branch of al Qaeda.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 07:01
Colombia saw its homicides drop 7 percent in 2014. Government and guerrilla negotiators will resume peace talks in Cuba on Feb. 2.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 06:53
Around two-thirds of Colombia's coca crop — which supplies 95 percent of cocaine consumed in the U.S., according to State Department estimates — is controlled by the Marxist guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 06:31
Police fired tear gas at crowds mounting a third day of protests in Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday against a proposed change to the law that the opposition says will delay elections by years and keep president Joseph Kabila in power.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 06:59
Growing up in Colombia, I imagined being kidnapped as the only way to end up face-to-face with militants from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a Marxist-inspired guerrilla group that has battled the government for over half a century.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 06:15
The Islamic State (IS) is attracting Central Asians to Syria and fostering new links among radicals within the region. Unless the five Central Asian governments develop a credible, coordinated counter-action plan, including improved security measures but also social, political and economic reforms, growing radicalism will eventually pose a serious threat to their stability.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 08:00
The United Nations called Nigeria on Tuesday to restore law and order in the northeast and investigate "mass killings" of civilians blamed on Boko Haram insurgents.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 06:38
The terms extremism, radicalism, terrorism and fundamentalism are used interchangeably by the leaders in the region to describe the threat that political Islam could pose to their well-established regimes. The ruthless violence of some groups, such as ISIS or Al-Qaeda, has been a recurring nightmare for Central Asian leaders and now it seems even more crucial, as U.S. troops leave Afghanistan.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 06:28
Libyan militants calling themselves part of the Islamic State said on Monday that they were holding captive 21 Egyptian Christians, raising new fears about the extremist group’s spreading influence beyond the battlegrounds of Syria and Iraq.