Conflict
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 06:27
An extraordinary meeting of Heads and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission and Benin has approved that Nigeria retains the position of the force commander in the war against Boko Haram until the end of the mission.
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 06:18
Burundi's government said on Thursday that weeks of protests against a third term bid by the president were over, claiming that the remaining demonstrators were only being organized by journalists.
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 05:47
With the peace process stalled and violence escalating in Ukraine, a bipartisan coalition in Congress is defying President Obama and European allies by pressing the administration to provide weapons to the embattled nation.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 07:16
Nicaragua has possibly given the leadership of Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC either citizenship or political asylum, which would shield them from international and US justice, Spanish newspaper El Economista reported Wednesday.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 07:11
The White House says the new batch of troops deploying to Iraq are going to train Iraqi recruits to fight the Islamic State. The Pentagon says the 450 American personnel headed to Al-Taqaddum Air Base are going over just as advisers.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 07:10
Leopoldo López embodies the change his country needs. And that's exactly why he's still in jail.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 06:34
Guatemala's Supreme Court has approved a request for congress to decide whether to strip President Otto Perez Molina of his immunity. The president has refused to resign amid a corruption scandal.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 06:31
South Sudan's floundering peace talks are being undermined by the economic interests of the regional states leading the process, an advocacy group warned Wednesday.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 07:56
Iran Wednesday insisted it has not deployed troops in Syria to strengthen regime forces, denying reports that thousands of foreign fighters have been flown in to help defend Damascus.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 07:10
There's a border somewhere in the vast no-man's land of jungles and rivers between Venezuela and Guyana, but for more than a century the two countries have not been able to agree where it is.