Conflict
Friday, August 16, 2013 - 06:34
Somali authorities said Thursday they are investigating the alleged rape of Somali woman by soldiers belonging to an African Union peacekeeping force.
The woman was allegedly attacked at Maslah Military Camp in the capital, Mogadishu, a week ago, a statement from the prime minister's office said.
Friday, August 16, 2013 - 06:32
Syrian opposition activists, including National Coalition members, have drawn up a road map to achieve national reconciliation and justice for “all of Syria’s victims,” a statement said yesterday.
Friday, August 16, 2013 - 06:24
Fighting has intensified in recent months in Sudan’s Darfur region, with hundreds of people killed in ongoing battles between rival Arab communities.
Observers say the government is losing control over the very militias they once armed to wage war against rebel groups.
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 12:09
The battered old car, cutlasses and nail-studded clubs poking out of its windows, careens down the road and squeals to a stop. Its young occupants pile out, shouting with glee, and set up a roadblock.
"Get down!" ''Open the trunk!" ''What's in that parcel?" They yell as a line of stopped cars and minivan taxis forms that will become nearly two kilometers (a mile) long.
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 11:39
Nigerian soldiers have killed the second-in-command of the Islamist sect Boko Haram, an insurgency that has caused the deaths of thousands in the last three years, the Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.
It said Momodu Bama, who had a $155,000 bounty on his head, was killed along with 17 other members of the sect during clashes with the military on Aug. 4 in Bama, a town in the northeastern state of Borno.
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 07:49
A court in Baku has extended the pretrial detention of Ilqar Mammadov, the head of the Republican Alternative (REAL) opposition movement.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 14:27
Press Secretary Jay Carney addresses the apparent failure of external mediation in Egypt, the embassy closings, and the terror threat in the Middle East.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 10:59
Azerbaijan's opposition National Council of Democratic Forces has officially nominated Oscar-winning screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov as its presidential candidate.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 10:46
President Saakashvili and PM Ivanishvili made a rare joint appearance on Sunday evening when they visited the U.S. navy ship, Bulkeley, during which the two exchanged barbs highlighting tense political cohabitation.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 08:43
Medical aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) closed all its operations in war-torn Somalia on Wednesday, warning of growing insecurity, after 22 years of working in the Horn of Africa troublespot.