Conflict
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 10:32
“If nobody in the Security Council seeks to politicise this issue, to promote one-sided approaches, I am convinced we will be able to reach an agreement in the coming days,” Lavrov told a meeting of Gulf states in Kuwait, Interfax reported.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 10:26
"Sides are beginning to align, with some militias still in support of the government," he said. "We could have a standoff. We have the potential for a confrontation, but this is just at the talking stage."
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 08:45
A fierce battle erupted between government and rebel forces in an oil-rich part of South Sudan on Tuesday, in the most significant violation of the cease-fire that was supposed to help bring peace to the fractured young nation.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 08:45
However, a senior administration official who briefed reporters before Obama's meeting on Saturday with Jordan's King Abdullah said expanded aid to the rebels is a possibility - but only if it nudges the sides toward a diplomatic solution.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 08:35
A senior administration official said at the weekend that there was “a lot of misplaced speculation” about the US substantially increasing the amount of weaponry being supplied to rebel groups.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 08:33
The army says it is not going to replace those soldiers who have defected since the beginning of the unrest.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 08:30
The demands issued Tuesday by the Al-Qaaqaa and al-Sawaaq militias, which some politicians likened to an attempted coup, brought the restive North African country's long-running political showdown to a head.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 08:27
The residents of the Nyala camps for the displaced have been living in fear for about a week, after large numbers of militiamen arrived and settled at Wadi Bileil, between Kalma and El Salam camps.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 08:26
Sheikh Matar Younis, Koran scholar in Zalingei, Central Darfur, and chairman of the Young Rebels for Freedom and Democracy told Radio Dabanga that “the authorities started a new mobilisation among the citizens of South, Central, and West Darfur, in order to recruit between 4,000 to 5,000 troops”.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 08:25
abhat al-Nusra fighters have so far largely refrained from targeting relief workers inside Syria, and have provided assurances that their forces will not target U.N. aid convoys.