Civil War

Turkish president holds meeting on next steps in Syria's Idlib

The meeting came after at least five Turkish troops were killed and five more injured in an attack earlier on Monday by the Syrian regime forces in Idlib.

Twelve bodies of Muslims found in Bosnian war-era mass grave

More than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were butchered by Bosnian Serb forces in the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II and deemed genocide by international justice.

Is Algeria facing a late bloom of Arab Spring uprisings?

A complex political configuration and the scars of civil war helped Algeria avoid the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. But eight years later, the country faces political turmoil as the President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika seeks a fifth term in office.

South Sudan rebel leader Machar back in Juba after two years

Riek Machar has been welcomed by President Salva Kiir on his arrival at Juba's airport as the rebel chief has returned to the capital Juba for the first time in more than two years for a ceremony to welcome the latest peace accord.

Peace talks over Syria's Daraa province collapse

An opposition spokesman says that they could not accept Moscow's demands that they surrender before the implementation of any peace deal.

No US support for Syrian opposition

While the US has warned the Syrian regime over its actions on a deescalation zone in the south of the war-torn country, any US military intervention has been ruled out by the Trump administration.

More time needed to achieve peace - South Sudan rebels

The armed opposition said that the current model for the peace process is "unrealistic" and that "there is no shortcut to peace," following President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar's meeting in Ethiopia where no deal was reached.

South Sudan's president and rebel leader meet in Ethiopia for peace talks

The talks are Kiir and Machar's first face-to-face negotiations in almost two years. The UN Security Council is considering imposing an arms embargo and placing sanctions on six high ranking officials if no agreement is reached by the end of June.

Syrian regime seeks to recapture southwest

Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Moualem says that apart from Daesh and rebels, the US needs to withdraw from a strategic base in the southwest of the country.

Healing civil war wounds with art in Lebanon

Lebanese artist Zena El Khalil is taking a unique approach to help people heal from the sufferings of the civil war that raged from 1975 to 1990.

Baltimore removes four Confederate monuments citing public safety

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said she and the city council decided to carry out the removals "quickly and quietly."

Yemenis struggling to survive

More than a million malnourished children aged under five in Yemen are living in areas with high levels of cholera.