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After string of defeats, IS faces retreat to the desert
Sep 05, 2017 (AFP)
By the end of 2014, the group born in Iraq held one third of the oil-rich country and large swathes of territory in neighbouring Syria. But today it has lost 90...
Colombia government, rebels hail pope-backed ceasefire
Sep 05, 2017 (AFP)
President Juan Manuel Santos and National Liberation Army (ELN) negotiators announced the ceasefire two days before a visit by Pope Francis. ELN chief negotiato...
Russia fires missiles near enclave besieged by IS
Sep 05, 2017 (AFP)
The Russian defence ministry said the strike, which was carried out by the frigate "Admiral Essen," hit IS targets near the town of Al-Shula, which were control...
Israel army to hold drill simulating war with Hezbollah
Sep 04, 2017 (AFP)
The drill will last 10 days and simulate "scenarios we'll be facing in the next confrontation with Hezbollah", a defence source said Monday, referring to the Ir...
Syrian army at edge of IS-held Deir Ezzor: monitor
Sep 03, 2017 (AFP)
Syria's army, backed by Russian military support, has been advancing towards the city of Deir Ezzor on several fronts for weeks. Late Sunday, the Syrian Observa...
Sri Lanka's ex-army chief ready to testify against successor
Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)
A human rights group this week filed two cases against General Jagath Jayasuriya in Colombia and Brazil, who until recently was Sri Lanka's ambassador in severa...
Colombia FARC rebels reborn as 'revolutionary' party
Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)
The new party will have a "broad character, a new party for a new Colombia," the group's former military commander Pablo Catatumbo told a press conference. It w...
Syria rebels back opposition plan for a 'national army'
Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)
The idea was proposed earlier this week by the opposition's interim government in exile and by the Syrian Islamic Council (SIC), a body of Syrian Muslim clerics...
Pope heads to Colombia to anoint peace process
Aug 31, 2017 (AFP)
In his fourth visit to his native region of the world since becoming pope four years ago, the 80-year-old Argentine now heads to one of Latin America's most tro...
US-led strike in Syria blocks IS fighters evacuated from Lebanon
Aug 30, 2017 (AFP)
Hundreds of IS fighters and civilians were evacuated Monday from the border region between Lebanon and Syria under a ceasefire deal and were headed to an IS-hel...
Lebanon army in uncharted territory near Syria border
Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)
After a week-long campaign against the Islamic State group, Lebanese troops have established an unprecedented presence in the northeastern area of Jurud Ras Baa...
UN chief seeks 'dream' of Israel-Palestinian peace in first visit
Aug 28, 2017 (AFP)
Guterres also spoke of what he called obstacles to peace when meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, including Israeli settlement building and the need for ...
Disarmed, Colombia's FARC seek political rebirth
Aug 27, 2017 (AFP)
About 1,200 delegates from the freshly demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia attended the opening of a founding congress to choose their political ...
Lebanon army declares pause in offensive against IS on Syria border
Aug 27, 2017 (AFP)
The armed forces launched their campaign against IS militants entrenched in the mountainous Jurud Ras Baalbek and Jurud al-Qaa areas on Lebanon's eastern border...
Saudi-led coalition says Yemen civilians hit by mistake
Aug 26, 2017 (AFP)
The attack was the latest in a wave of deadly raids on residential areas of Yemen blamed on the coalition, drawing strong international condemnation. The coalit...
Unwanted statues of a defeated general? Taiwan has the answer
Aug 25, 2017 (AFP)
More than 200 memorials to Chiang Kai-shek, the former nationalist leader of Taiwan revered as a hero by some but despised as a dictator by others, have been qu...
Children dead in new air strike on Yemen capital
Aug 25, 2017 (AFP)
The attack is the latest in a wave of deadly raids on residential areas of Yemen blamed on a Saudi-led coalition, drawing strong international condemnation. The...
Syria army encircles IS jihadists in desert: monitor
Aug 24, 2017 (AFP)
Advancing overnight, troops north and south of the Badiya desert area met up and seized Jabal Dahek, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. By encircling...
250 US-led strikes in, around Raqa in past week: coalition
Aug 22, 2017 (AFP)
Coalition spokesman Colonel Ryan Dillon told AFP that the air raids targeted the greater Raqa area. Activists and monitoring groups have reported that intensify...
IS-held Raqa 'worst place' in Syria: UN
Aug 17, 2017 (AFP)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 21 children were among at least 59 civilians killed since Monday in the air strikes aimed at dislodging the jihadis...
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