Civil War

Ethiopia's Tigray region fires missiles into neighbouring Eritrea

At least two of the rockets hit the Asmara airport, three diplomats said, hours after the Tigray regional government warned it might attack.

Protests in Libya are a warning shot aimed at its leaders

Civil unrest in eastern Libya's Benghazi is a strong signal that cracks are beginning to appear in Khalifa Haftar's strongholds.

Kanye West launches campaign with chaotic rally

Wearing a bullet-proof jacket marked "security," West gave a rambling speech in which he claimed he had wanted his wife, Kim Kardashian, to get an abortion and that renowned American abolitionist Harriet Tubman "never actually freed the slaves."

Hundreds tortured, more than 1,000 detained in Yemen's secret prisons

The Mwatana Organization for Human Rights has accused both sides in the civil war of arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances and torture over the past four years in detention centres.

Lebanon's Aoun warns of civil war in peace meeting

President Michel Aoun cautions against bids to destabilise "security and the street" after angry protests over the Arab country's economic crisis.

Syria's food shortage worsens as Covid-19 threatens to escalate

Food prices soared by more than 200 percent in less than a year due to the free-fall in neighbouring Lebanon's economy and Covid-19 lockdown measures in Syria, the World Food Programme has said.

Militant groups in Syria upping attacks on civilians during pandemic – UN

UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet highlighted that militant groups are using coronavirus pandemic "as an opportunity to regroup and inflict violence on the population."

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.