Conflict
Monday, July 6, 2015 - 06:38
U.S.-led coalition aircraft unleashed a wave of airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group's stronghold of Raqqa in eastern Syria in what the coalition said Sunday was one of its most sustained aerial operations carried out in Syria to date.
Monday, July 6, 2015 - 06:28
Tariq bin Tahar al-’Awni al-Harzi raised money and helped bring in foreign fighters as suicide bombers; his brother was killed in a previous attack.
Thursday, July 2, 2015 - 07:32
On Wednesday, members from the House Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs held the first congressional hearing on negotiations between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Thursday, July 2, 2015 - 06:55
Syria's main Kurdish party warned Turkey on Wednesday that any military intervention would threaten international peace and said the country's main Kurdish militia is ready to face any "aggression."
Thursday, July 2, 2015 - 06:28
Officials warn the Middle East’s most impoverished country is a step away from famine
Thursday, July 2, 2015 - 06:28
Ivory Coast has reinforced security along its northern frontier following recent attacks just across the border in Mali blamed on Islamist insurgents, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 06:39
Salvatore Mancuso, once the supreme leader of paramilitary organization AUC, was sentenced to almost 16 years in US prison on Tuesday for drug trafficking.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 06:39
Security forces in Chad have arrested 60 suspected militants and dismantled a cell responsible for two suicide bomb attacks in its capital on June 15, the chief prosecutor of the central African nation said on Sunday.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 06:32
Heavily armed men suspected to be Niger Delta militants on Monday invaded the Nigerian Customs Service Base in Oron, Akwa Ibom State, killing an officer and carting away 10 rifles.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 06:26
The U.S. has spent nearly $3 billion in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Pentagon said in an update Tuesday.