Conflict
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 06:39
The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday he was alarmed by accounts from refugees fleeing Burundi about violence and threats by members of the ruling party's youth wing.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 06:36
The United States and its allies may be killing thousands of Islamic State militants from the air, but the Islamist extremist group is recruiting at least as many fighters for its war in Iraq and Syria as it is losing, experts say.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 08:23
Fighter jets from the Saudi Arabia-led coalition have been carrying out strikes against Houthi rebels since late March, when Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi fled the country. Now, according to two recent Human Rights Watch investigations, they are also using cluster munitions, some supplied by the United States.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 06:54
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has hit the ground running after assuming office, meeting his military chiefs and the leaders of neighbouring Niger and Chad, countries which have been helping in the fight against Boko Haram.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 06:34
A trained-in-Russia-and-America veteran of brutal Tajik government operations, Khalimov has the qualifications. And Tajikistan, a desperately poor country ruled by a venal elite, is a vulnerable target.
Monday, June 8, 2015 - 07:08
ISIS’s victory in Ramadi reveals that containment is the best the U.S. can do for now.
Monday, June 8, 2015 - 06:55
Finding Islamic State militants to kill is not easy, the top U.S. commander overseeing the air war in Iraq and Syria said. Air Force Lt. Gen. John Hesterman says U.S. pilots are hitting as many targets as they can find, and to suggest otherwise is simply wrong.
Monday, June 8, 2015 - 06:37
The families of an anti-Qaeda cleric and a police officer killed in an American drone strike in Yemen filed suit in federal court in Washington on Sunday night, asking the court to declare that the strike was unlawful.
Friday, June 5, 2015 - 07:03
Yemen's dominant Houthis agreed on Thursday to join United Nations-backed peace talks in Geneva planned for June 14 as coalition Arab bombings killed around 58 people across Yemen on Wednesday and Thursday.
Friday, June 5, 2015 - 06:38
The British foreign secretary says the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is not hitting all the terrorist targets it identifies. His comments come as Republican lawmakers are calling on the Obama administration to allow U.S. troops to embed with Iraqi forces, to provide better intelligence for airstrikes.