#peace efforts

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

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 ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday told China that it cannot deny the "aspirations" of its citizens as ...

Russia and China, who twice blocked UN resolutions to condemn ally Syria, were Monday stepping efforts to find a ...

Truckloads of Ethiopian and Somali troops on Wednesday captured the strategic Somali city of Baidoa from Al-Qaeda ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday invited the Taliban leadership to direct talks with his government, while ...

Pakistan has rejected U.S. special envoy Marc Grossman`s request to visit the country, a senior official said on ...

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Monday the country`s largest rebel group was increasingly selling its ...

Around 20,000 demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday on the anniversary of former premier Yitzhak Rabin`s ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the accelerated construction of some 2,000 housing units in ...

Arab League (AL) chief Nabil al- Arabi said Sunday that he hoped Syrian authorities positively deal with its efforts ...

Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani and head of the council tasked with trying to negotiate a political end to ...

Chief Security Minister Djoko Suyanto said that all parties in Ambon after Sunday afternoon`s communal clashes must ...

The United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations on Tuesday attacked Israel`s move to expand a ...