#civil war

The Afghan Local Police, branded by some critics as an incompetent Taliban-linked militia, is one of the many security ...

-     Japan's The Nippon Foundation, which had promised to donate $3 million in emergency aid to ...

Russia urged South Sudan on Saturday to punish those responsible for shooting down a UN helicopter and killing all ...

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has said that poverty eradication should be a far-reaching and continuous effort ...

An Afghan cabinet minister and one-time warlord called on Monday on former anti-Soviet guerrillas to regroup and rearm ...

The U.N. chief called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary ...

Almost 150 people died on the first day of a barely-observed truce between the warring parties in Syria, a watchdog ...

Turkey scrambled two fighter planes to the border with Syria on Friday after a Syrian military helicopter bombed the ...

Hundreds of shops were burning in the ancient covered market in Aleppo on Saturday as fighting between rebels and ...

The Druze of Idlib province have not yet taken up arms in the war to unseat Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but have ...

Twelve people were killed and another 48 injured Tuesday when a car bomb ripped through a funeral procession for two ...

South Sudanese soldiers have killed, raped and tortured civilians in the troubled eastern state of Jonglei, ...

Iran is to host some 30 leaders, including those of India, Egypt and Cuba, at an August 30-31 summit of the ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a senior visiting Syrian minister on Tuesday that the regime`s current ...

World leaders on Tuesday mourned the death of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi with high praise after the ...