War & Conflict

News Hour: The United States warned its citizens against travel to Turkey on Saturday after authorities crushed a military coup that claimed at least 265 lives, reports BSS. “The US Department of State warns US citizens...

News Hour: Following four days of bloody clashes between rival forces in South Sudan, which has left close to 300 people dead, at least 42,000 displaced and tens of thousands facing critical food and water shortages,...

News Hour: Iraqi security forces paraded through Baghdad on Thursday to celebrate victories over the Islamic State jihadist group, but an unannounced rehearsal two days earlier put a damper on the festivities, reports BSS. Prime Minister...

News Hour: Eight Taliban insurgents have been killed and a few others injured as clashes erupted in Darayem district of the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan on Thursday, an army spokesman Nasratullah Jamshidi said, reports BSS....

News Hour: Funerals were held on Wednesday for two of the five officers killed in last week’s sniper shooting in Dallas, one day after President Barack Obama addressed a public memorial service honoring the slain police,...

News Hour: The UN Security Council on Thursday strongly condemned the “barbaric and cowardly terrorist attack” that took place during Bastille Day celebrations in the French city of Nice, reports BSS. At least 80 people including...

News Hour: At least 80 people were killed and another 100 injured in the southern French city of Nice after an attacker drove a lorry into a crowd celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday, authorities said,...

News Hour: IOM has condemned the violence that broke out in South Sudan’s capital Juba days after the country’s fifth anniversary of independence and welcomed a ceasefire declared yesterday by the warring factions. President Salva Kiir...

News Hour: An Israeli border policeman shot dead one Palestinian and wounded another in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday when they drove towards officers, an army spokeswoman said, reports BSS. The officers had been carrying...

News Hour: Three demonstrators were killed in northern Mali on Tuesday, a medical source said, in a protest centred on a contentious peace accord that Mali has been struggling to enact, reports BSS. Demonstrators said security...