#civil war

Taiwan is set to produce 50 medium-range missiles next year that will target military bases in southeast China, a ...

Iran hostage thriller "Argo" won the Best Picture Oscar on Sunday, the highest honor in the movie industry, while Ang ...

Ukrainian authorities this week detained a former Tajik politician, who has long been living in the United States, ...

Rape has been a "significant" weapon of war in the conflict raging in Syria since March 2011 and is the "primary" ...

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

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is one of the most brutal actors on the world stage today and his actions against his ...

Saif al-Islam, the second son of Libya's late leader Muammar Gaddafi, will go on trial within the next month, Justice ...

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 ...