Conflict
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 06:41
The ongoing peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, could end more than 50 years of internal armed conflict. But they have not gone without a hitch. Despite some progress, tensions have been escalating in the last several months, threatening to bring negotiations to a halt.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 06:15
Mali's Tuareg-led rebel alliance signed a landmark deal on Saturday to end years of unrest in a nation riven by ethnic divisions and in the grip of a jihadist insurgency.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 06:13
When Kenyan police arrested six men in the vast Dadaab refugee camp near the Somali border last April, their ultimate aim was to dismantle a decades-old sugar smuggling trade that is funding Somali militants waging war on Kenya.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 06:11
The Somali jihadist group al-Shabab has carried out an attack in the country's capital Mogadishu.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 05:37
Frequent provocations on the border with Turkmenistan and Tajikistan cause major concern in the expert community. According to some political scientists, we can't exclude the possibility of using the Central Asian region as a staging area of so-called hybrid wars.
Friday, June 19, 2015 - 08:21
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs's Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere will hold a meeting on Colombia and the status of the peace talks with the FARC.
Friday, June 19, 2015 - 06:59
In a letter addressed to the UN Security Council, more than 70 countries have demanded that Syria stop its air strikes and use of barrel bombs that have killed thousands of people.
Friday, June 19, 2015 - 06:54
Saudi-led warplanes bombed elite Republican Guard forces allied with the dominant Houthi faction in Yemen's civil war on Friday, residents said, as U.N. diplomats in Geneva struggled to nudge the various sides toward a ceasefire deal.
Friday, June 19, 2015 - 06:48
Al Qaeda’s branch in North Africa, in a stinging statement issued Thursday, denied that the jihadist leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar had been killed in an American airstrike in Libya this week.
Friday, June 19, 2015 - 06:36
Wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan highlight how half the world is suffering more conflict, while the other half enjoys growing levels of peace.