#civil war

Collection of civil war news, found 58 news.

Myanmar denies using chemical weapons on rebels

Myanmar on Thursday denied accusations it had used chemical weapons against ethnic minority rebels in the northern ...

Darfur rebels `seize` army posts near Heglig

Rebels from Sudan`s Darfur region on Thursday said they seized two Sudanese military positions north of the Heglig oil ...

Gunmen kill four Shi`ite farmers in Baghdad attack

Gunmen killed four Shi`ite farmers in the northern outskirts of Baghdad on Monday, police and hospital sources said, ...

Turkey urges political reform in Syria

Syria should heed the will of its people by implementing political reforms and allowing free elections, Turkish Prime ...

South Sudan will not return to war with Khartoum: minister

South Sudan will not return to war with Khartoum despite a second day of airstrikes and bloody ground assaults in ...

Gunmen execute Yemen official, three killed in clash

Unidentified gunmen abducted and killed an intelligence officer in southern Yemen, sparking a clash in which two of ...

Sri Lanka should punish civil war crimes - UN forum

Sri Lanka should ensure government troops who committed war crimes during the final stages of its war against Tamil ...

West to pay Afghan military $4 bln a year: Karzai

The international community will subsidise Afghan security forces by more than $4 billion a year for a decade after ...

Opposition ahead in E. Timor election count

Early results from East Timor`s presidential polls on Sunday showed the opposition Fretilin party`s Francisco "Lu Olo" ...

East Timor votes in test for young nation

East Timor voted Saturday in the country`s second presidential election as a free nation, seen as a key test for a ...

Intensified Yemeni air strikes kill 24 Al-Qaida terrorists

An Egyptian national terrorist Ibrahim Mohammed Saleh al-Banaa, who is the head of media department of the al-Qaida in ...

Obama sends 100 troops to fight rebels in central Africa

US President Barack Obama said Friday he is sending 100 combat troops to central Africa to help and advise forces ...

Somali rebels vow more attacks after Mogadishu carnage

Somalia`s Shebab Wednesday vowed more attacks after a massive car bombing killed more than 70 people in Mogadishu in ...

Tamil protesters ask for probe into war crimes allegations

Tamils from across Europe demonstrated at the UN`s European headquarters on Monday, calling for a probe into alleged ...

Religion for Peace hopes Ambon not mired in same tragedy

World Conference on Religions for Peace (WCRP) President KH Hasyim Muzadi reminds the people in Ambon, Maluku, not to ...