Rebel-held areas on the outskirts of Damascus have been extensively damaged in recent months Syrian security forces are engaged in fierce clashes with rebels on the eastern outskirts of the capital...
Heavy clashes rocked eastern districts of the Syrian capital on Sunday after rebels and jihadists launched a surprise assault on regime forces there, a monitor and state television said. Rebels and...
A quartet of international groups said Saturday it supported efforts by Libya's unity government to assert control over Tripoli after days of fighting with rival militias. The Cairo meeting by...
Hundreds of rebels and civilians left the last opposition-held district of Homs on Saturday under a controversial Russian-supervised deal to bring Syria's third city under full government control....
With a spike in militia killings, a deepening humanitarian crisis and the army still in shambles, the Central African Republic's bid for peace and stability remains elusive. A three-year civil war...
The government of South Sudan is spending its oil revenue on weapons, even as the country descends into a famine largely caused by Juba's military operations, according to a confidential United...
Israeli warplanes struck several targets in Syria early Friday, prompting retaliatory missile launches, in the most serious incident between the two countries since the Syrian civil war began six...
South Sudan's government is spending its oil revenue on weapons as the country descends into a famine largely caused by Juba's military operations, according to a confidential UN report. The report...
Fighter jets bomb multiple targets, prompting Syrian retaliation with ground-to-air missiles, Israeli army says. The Israeli army says its aircraft have carried out several strikes inside Syria...
Deposed premier Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday accused Thailand's junta of "hounding" her family after it pressed for a $450 million tax bill to be slapped on her older brother Thaksin. The...
Syria's army said Friday it shot down an Israeli plane that had been carrying out pre-dawn raids on a military target near Palmyra, the famed desert city it recently recaptured from jihadists. "Four...
Israeli warplanes struck several targets in Syria early Friday, prompting retaliatory missiles launches, in the most serious incident between the two countries since the Syrian civil war began six...
Israeli aircraft carried out several strikes on Syria overnight, prompting the launch of ground-to-air missiles in response, one of which was intercepted, the army said on Friday. It was the most...
Four men accused of plotting the murder of a prominent Myanmar lawyer and adviser to de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in a Yangon court on Friday. Ko Ni was shot in the back of the head in...
Myanmar should close bleak camps where tens of thousands of displaced Rohingya Muslims have been trapped for nearly five years, a commission led by former UN chief Kofi Annan said Thursday. More than...
The Iraqi army is giving ISIS a taste of its own medicine by bombing them with shuttlecock grenades attached to drones. The feathered tails, usually found on badminton courts across the world, are...
Thailand's junta on Thursday said any future civilian government will be legally bound to follow a 20-year "masterplan" for the country as generals seek to entrench their political influence for...
Last Saturday was the turn of the University of Ghana to host Vodafone’s X-Men tour, an event that seeks to empower young people with real life challenges as well as success stories of successful...
Israel's defence minister Wednesday demanded a rabbi heading an institute that prepares young Jews for their military service resign after he made offensive comments about women in the army. "I...
A growing US presence off the Korean Peninsula is reportedly part of a plan aimed at 'incapacitating' Kim Jong Un's despotic regime in Pyongyang should conflict break out. A nuclear-powered US...
