Conflict
Monday, July 15, 2013 - 11:11
More than 60,000 Congolese have fled to Uganda after a rebel attack on a town near the border in a continuing influx that is stretching humanitarian capacities, an aid group said Sunday.
Monday, July 15, 2013 - 09:16
A senior rebel commander in Syria is reported to have been killed by rebels from a rival group linked to al-Qaeda.
Monday, July 15, 2013 - 08:55
The influential chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin (D-MA) said Wednesday, July 10, that the administration of President Barack Obama should prepare to target Syrian “airfields, airplanes and massed artillery.”
Monday, July 15, 2013 - 08:47
The video of the demonstration is one of many showing how civilians and mainstream rebel fighters alike are turning against the more hardline Islamist factions.
Monday, July 15, 2013 - 08:28
U.N. peacekeepers in Democratic Republic of Congo will begin using unarmed drones on a trial basis to monitor its war-torn east, the head of peacekeeping operations told Reuters on Sunday.
Monday, July 15, 2013 - 08:24
The junior partner in Morocco's governing coalition will resign on Tuesday over planned cuts in food and energy subsidies and other issues it believes will hurt the poor.
Monday, July 15, 2013 - 08:09
Military officials say they have uncovered mass graves of decomposing bodies, networks of underground tunnels and caches of buried arms in raids that killed dozens of Islamic extremists in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri.
Friday, July 12, 2013 - 08:34
Press Secretary Jay Carney addresses the protests in Turkey and whether they will impact U.S. policy on Syria.
Friday, July 12, 2013 - 08:09
A Ugandan rebel group in eastern Congo attacked a town close to the border, forcing more than 18,000 Congolese to flee to Uganda, officials said Friday.
Friday, July 12, 2013 - 06:04
Nigeria has stopped blocking the mobile phone signal in one of the three states where an emergency has been declared because of militant attacks.