Conflict
Monday, September 28, 2015 - 06:07
When President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia met with the leader of his country’s largest guerrilla group this week to seal the outline of a deal to end more than five decades of war, he received an unsettling shock. At the last minute, he said, the rebel leader, Rodrigo Londoño, tried to back out of a crucial part of the newly negotiated framework.
Friday, September 25, 2015 - 11:20
Witnesses
Panel I:
The Honorable Robert P. Jackson
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
Bureau of African Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Panel II
Mr. Paul Ronan
Co-Founder and Project Director
The Resolve LRA Crisis Initiative
Mr. Sasha Lezhnev
Associate Director of Policy
Enough Project
Friday, September 25, 2015 - 06:21
At least 12 people were arrested and more than 30 others injured, most of them police officers, when a group of students was evicted from the Uruguayan public education administration headquarters, which they occupied last week to protest government education policies, officials said.
Friday, September 25, 2015 - 06:17
President Enrique Pena Nieto told the families of 43 students who disappeared a year ago in southern Mexico during a meeting Thursday that he would create a new special prosecutor for all of the country's thousands of missing people.
Friday, September 25, 2015 - 06:07
Even by Mexican standards, however, the past 12 months have been unusually miserable. First, the students went missing in bizarre circumstances. Then the efforts to find them, or their bodies, only unearthed other mass graves. Faith in Peña Nieto and his government plummeted, particularly after a series of political scandals.
Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 06:16
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the leader of the FARC rebel group announced a major breakthrough Wednesday in peace talks, bringing the country to the verge of ending one of the world’s longest-running wars.
Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 06:12
A suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Yemen's capital Sanaa has left at least 25 people dead and wounded at least 36.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 07:32
Yemen's president has returned to the southern city of Aden after six months in exile, his office says.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 07:02
It is never a good idea to fight a war based on pride and without either the moral justification to sustain popular support or a clear set of achievable goals. Unfortunately, the Middle East has become best known for “wars of confusion.”
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 06:27
A member of an independent political group critical of the Armenian government was savagely beaten after a protest in Yerevan, the capital, on September 21, 2015, Human Rights Watch said today.