War & Conflict
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Philippines’ Duterte cites “genocide” in Myanmar, says will take refugees
Apr 6, 2018Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday “genocide” was taking place in Myanmar and he was willing to accept Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing from it, though Europe should help too. The United Nations and rights groups... -
Two Palestinians killed as Israel-Gaza border protests resume
Apr 6, 2018Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian protesters and wounded at least 150 along the Israel-Gaza border on Friday, Gaza medical officials said, raising the death toll to 22 in the week-long disturbances. They said the men... -
Warplanes struck the rebel-held town of Douma in Syria
Apr 6, 2018Warplanes struck the rebel-held town of Douma in eastern Ghouta near Damascus on Friday, state TV and a war monitor reported, shattering days of calm as mediated talks between the sides appeared to have collapsed. There... -
Boko Haram killed at least 18 people on a military camp and villages around the flashpoint Nigerian city of Maiduguri
Apr 2, 2018Boko Haram killed at least 18 people and wounded scores in coordinated attacks overnight on a military camp and villages around the flashpoint Nigerian city of Maiduguri, which they also tried to infiltrate across a defensive... -
In Yemen, children’s education devastated after three years of escalating conflict
Mar 28, 2018Nearly half a million children have dropped out of school since the 2015 escalation of conflict in Yemen, bringing the total number of out-of-school children to 2 million, according to a UNICEF assessment released. Meanwhile, almost... -
Turkey’s Erdogan says operations begin in Iraq’s Sinjar region
Mar 26, 2018President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey had begun operations in Iraq’s Sinjar region, an area where it has threatened a military incursion, two days after sources said Kurdish PKK militants would withdraw from the... -
Three killed in suicide car bomb near Somalia’s parliament
Mar 25, 2018A suicide car bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint near Somalia’s parliament and interior ministry in the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, and the city’s ambulance service said three people had been killed. Nur Mohamed, a... -
Migrants take new Balkan route through Bosnia
Mar 25, 2018A new Balkan route through Bosnia has opened up for migrants, four years after a crisis in which more than one million people landed on Europe’s shores. Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty... -
Assad closer to Ghouta victory, as some rebels prepare to quit
Mar 22, 2018The Syrian government moved closer to ending rebel resistance in eastern Ghouta as civilians streamed out of one of its besieged, bomb-battered towns on Thursday and insurgents prepared to surrender another. The army assault on eastern... -
Syria war: Only international body can rule if chemical weapons used in Syria
Mar 6, 2018Only an impartial investigation in Syria by an international commission can determine if allegations about the use of chemical weapons are true, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. Asked about the possibility that the United...
