Conflict
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 - 06:36
Turkey and the U.S. have completed an agreement allowing Turkey to begin striking at Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria, the Pentagon said Tuesday, but officials said they don't expect the airstrikes to begin immediately.
Tuesday, August 25, 2015 - 06:48
Burundi security forces used iron bars and acid to force confessions and crush opposition during President Pierre Nkurunziza's successful bid for a third term in office, Amnesty International said Monday.
Monday, August 24, 2015 - 07:21
Military chiefs from the Lake Chad region have finalized details of the deployment of a joint force to fight Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, designating three command posts in Nigeria and Cameroon, military sources said on Saturday.
Monday, August 24, 2015 - 07:17
Tuareg rebels in northern Mali said Sunday they were pulling out of an international committee set up to monitor a peace accord between them and pro-government forces in the restive region, after deadly clashes between the rival groups sent tensions soaring.
Monday, August 24, 2015 - 06:16
After nearly 10 months of negotiations, NATO allies Turkey and the United States agreed to cooperate on fighting ISIS jihadists in Syria and Iraq, and are discussing ways to broaden their alliance.
Friday, August 21, 2015 - 06:52
Libya's prime minister wants Arab allies to carry out airstrikes against the country's powerful Islamic State affiliates but says they don't need to send ground forces into the increasingly chaotic North African country.
Friday, August 21, 2015 - 06:52
The intensity of Colombia's decades-old armed conflict has dropped to its lowest point in more than 40 years since the FARC rebels announced their latest unilateral cease-fire 30 days ago, according to a study released Thursday.
Friday, August 21, 2015 - 06:39
Colombia's Marxist rebels indefinitely extended a month-old ceasefire on Thursday as peace talks resumed in Havana, with the government still pledging not to conduct air raids on rebel camps.
Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 07:38
The emergence of the new group, recruiting among central Mali's marginalized Fulani ethnic minority, has sown panic among residents, forced some officials to flee, and undermined the efforts of a 10,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission to stabilize the West African state.
Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 06:12
The U.S. knows the Saudi government has employed cluster bombs in its ongoing war against Shiite Muslim rebels in neighboring Yemen, but has done little if anything to stop the use of the indiscriminate and deadly weapons during what has become a human rights catastrophe in one of the Arab world's poorest countries.