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Monday, March 23, 2015 - 08:19
The White House announced a new program to train 750 Ukrainian troops in the western city of Yavoriv near the Polish border.
Monday, March 23, 2015 - 07:48
The faltering start to the highly-anticipated campaign in North Kivu province has revived doubts about the will and capacity of Congo's army to defeat a group at the heart of two decades of conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes region.
Monday, March 23, 2015 - 07:42
A gang ambushed a federal police convoy in western Mexico, sparking a shootout that killed five officers, three suspects and two bystanders, authorities said Friday
Monday, March 23, 2015 - 07:42
A DRC army offensive against Rwandan Hutu rebels may be advancing rapidly, but many fear it is failing in its main objective of disarming them as the fighters melt away into the forest.
Monday, March 23, 2015 - 07:30
The U.N. Children’s Fund reports one of South Sudan’s armed groups, the Cobra Faction, released up to 250 child soldiers on Sunday. The group of children released in the remote village of Lekuangole, in Jonglei state, included four girls -- one as young as 9.
Monday, March 23, 2015 - 07:29
U.S. soldiers and military contractors have sexually abused more than 54 children in Colombia between 2003 and 2007, according to a recently released historic document on the country’s conflict. The alleged sex offenders have not been prosecuted due to immunity clauses in bilateral agreements.
Monday, March 23, 2015 - 07:24
Drug-fuelled violence and street crime have given Acapulco more of a reputation for high homicide rates than for high-end glamour.
Monday, March 23, 2015 - 07:14
A year on from the start of the Ebola outbreak, a report has been published by frontline aid agency Doctors Without Borders slamming the international community's slow response and detailing the "indescribable horror" faced by its staff.
Monday, March 23, 2015 - 07:07
Tierra Caliente, that place in Mexico set on fire by the Caballeros Templarios with their colluding Government contacts, now seems calm. But new indications are that the understanding and the impunity did not disappear with the capture of Servando Gomez Martinez "LaTuta" and the death of Narazio Moreno "El Mas Loco".
Monday, March 23, 2015 - 07:06
The Afghan government is hoping Pakistan will help facilitate dialogue with the leaders of the Afghan Taliban, whom Pakistan has long harbored and enabled. Pakistan, for its part, has asked Kabul’s assistance against the leaders of the militant group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (T.T.P.), the so-called Pakistani Taliban, whose leaders are said to be hiding in eastern Afghanistan.