Conflict
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 06:33
The militant incursion from Afghanistan that Tajikistan regularly worries about appears to finally have happened. Or has it?
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 06:18
The Pentagon has presented the White House with the most detailed set of military options yet for attacking the growing Islamic State threat in Libya, including a range of potential airstrikes against training camps, command centers, munitions depots and other militant targets.
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 06:19
At least 50,000 people have been killed in South Sudan's two-year civil war, a senior United Nations official said on Wednesday, a five-fold increase in the death toll given by humanitarian agencies in the early months of the conflict.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 06:29
The United States and its allies staged 21 strikes on Tuesday against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement released on Wednesday.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 06:28
Doctors Without Borders says its staffers are "scared" to resume their work in a facility it supports in the northern Yemeni city of Saada after two nearby airstrikes by the U.S.-backed military coalition.
Monday, February 29, 2016 - 06:21
A United States-backed Arab military coalition bombed a busy market north of Yemen’s capital early Saturday, killing at least 30 people, witnesses said.
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 06:27
The U.S. military believes that an air strike against the Islamic State in Libya last week did not kill two kidnapped Serbian diplomats, as Belgrade has asserted, and instead suspects the Westerners were kidnapped by a separate criminal group that killed the foreigners and tried to pass off their deaths.
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 06:21
Security forces and their allies in Burundi have beaten people with rocks, bricks, gun butts and iron bars; they have abducted suspects and extorted money for holding them; and they have buried victims in mass graves, a leading human rights group said on Thursday.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 06:32
United States airstrikes have helped to break a bloody impasse between Afghan troops and Taliban militants north of Kabul, allowing repair crews to reach downed power lines and restore electricity to the capital after more than three weeks of disruption, an Afghan official said on Tuesday.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 05:17
In power just two months, the president of Argentina, Mauricio Macri is already facing labour unrest, with a national public sector strike planned for Wednesday as workers protest against rocketing inflation and job cuts.