Conflict
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 08:00
Militants in Syria are trying to use the deaths of foreign fighters as evidence that their cause has broad support, complicating other countries' efforts to keep their citizens from getting involved in a non-legitimate war.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 13:33
CAIRO — In a country where opposition figures have been jailed by the thousands and a military man who spearheaded a coup is a likely shoo-in for the presidency, the odds are not looking good for Hamdeen Sabbahi.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 13:13
AZRAQ, Jordan: Jordan opened a new, sprawling tent city on Wednesday to accommodate tens of thousands more Syrian refugees who are expected to flee their country's fighting - another grim indicator for a deadly war now in its fourth year.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 08:09
The other is that, in the wake of the Russian offensive against Ukraine and visits by officials such as U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague, the Baku government has come to believe that Azerbaijan is an indispensable energy supplier and therefore immune to Western criticism.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 08:02
In Baykhanov's words, those principles mean "to work for the independence of the Turkmen people, to prevent the authorities' criminal actions against the people, like jailing innocent people, demolishing houses, depriving people of property.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 09:22
Saidumar Husaini, deputy chairman of the opposition Islamic Renaissance Party, told reporters in Dushanbe on April 29 that about 15 unknown individuals attacked him, his son, and a member of his party's supreme council on April 28.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 09:21
The "people's mayor" of the breakaway town of Slavyansk, Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, told Time magazine that "his militia force... is made up partly of volunteers who have come from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other parts of the former Soviet Union."
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 09:18
“The government’s policy is to economically weaken its political opponents. The government is overestimating [our power], that’s why it is taking such measures,” Kabiri told EurasiaNet.org in a recent interview
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 08:54
Doctors Without Borders,expressed alarm and outrage on Monday over the weekend killings of 16 civilians, including three staff members, on the property of a hospital it runs in Boguila, in the Central African Republic.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 08:52
A Kenyan rights group is requesting President Uhuru Kenyatta to take up the crisis in South Sudan as a Kenya’s own crisis.