Hundreds of female prisoners were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma. On January 27, ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

According to the United Nations, hundreds of women were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in Goma, DR Congo.

It would be a "major mistake" to deploy British, French and other allied troops to guarantee Ukraine's security without ...

Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. The female inmates were attacked in their wing inside Goma’s Munzenze prison during a mass ...

The U.S. has notified the United Nations that it is freezing funding to a U.N.-backed mission in Haiti tasked with fighting ...

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman stressed this was a "targeted enforcement" against "illegal migrants who have ...

It would be easy for President Donald Trump to exclude his European counterparts from peace negotiations to end the war in ...

WARSAW — It's March 2027 and soldiers from a European peacekeeping force are patrolling the demarcation line separating Ukraine from Russian-occupied territory. The troops are tense. Suddenly, a loud ...

The prospect of a rapid settlement has focused minds in Kyiv and Europe on the urgent need for security guarantees to prevent any future Russian attack, with the idea of peacekeeping force circulating ...

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