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Lowest monthly civilian toll in Russia Syria strikes: monitor
May 30, 2017 (AFP)
Moscow first launched air strikes in support of its ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in September 2015. Since then, it has killed more than 12,000 people i...
German, Turkish foreign ministers to meet over airbase row
May 30, 2017 (AFP)
"We will discuss the question of Incirlik," Cavusoglu told a televised press conference of the meeting planned for Monday. The airbase in southern Turkey has be...
FARC disarmament deadline pushed back 20 days
May 30, 2017 (AFP)
Santos insisted that the delay "does not impact in any way the government and the FARC's firm decision and clear commitment to the (peace) accord" signed in Nov...
US begins sending arms to Kurdish fighters in Syria
May 30, 2017 (AFP)
The weapons transfers have begun ahead of an upcoming offensive to recapture Raqa, the last major bastion for IS in Syria. "We have begun to transfer small arms...
Myanmar military probing suspect civilian deaths
May 30, 2017 (AFP)
The corpses of the three men were discovered about three miles away from northeast of military command in Mai Khaung village in Kachin State, where thousands of...
Fears for 2,000 people trapped in Philippine city battle
May 29, 2017 (AFP)
President Rodrigo Duterte imposed martial law across the southern third of the Philippines shortly after the fighting erupted, warning the gunmen were involved ...
Secession fears cloud Myanmar peace talks: government
May 28, 2017 (AFP)
The civilian-led government of Aung San Suu Kyi has made striking a peace deal a key pillar of her administration, but fighting has instead intensified in recen...
Civilian deaths a 'fact of life' in war on IS, Pentagon head says
May 28, 2017 (AFP)
A US-led international coalition has been carrying out air strikes against the IS group in Iraq and Syria since 2014, and nongovernmental organizations say the ...
Israelis rally for Palestinian state, end of occupation
May 27, 2017 (AFP)
Banners bearing the slogan "Two states, One Hope" featured in the demonstration organised by supporters of a Palestinian state, including the Israeli NGO Peace ...
Troubled Philippine south burns again: What we know
May 27, 2017 (AFP)
The violence is the latest in four decades of conflict across the southern third of the mostly Catholic Philippines, where a Muslim separatist rebellion has cla...
Civilians flee IS-held Syria cities after strikes: monitor
May 27, 2017 (AFP)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said a "large-scale displacement" was underway from the cities of Albu Kamal and Mayadeen. "Hu...
Child fighter who fled ELN rebels dreams of peace in Colombia
May 26, 2017 (AFP)
Now 18, he belongs to the Victus theater project, made up of ex-guerrillas, former paramilitary fighters, retired soldiers and civilians caught up in Colombia's...
China-backed militia new powerbrokers in Myanmar peace process
May 26, 2017 (AFP)
When Myanmar's new civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi convened the first round of peace talks with the country's myriad ethnic groups last year, the United Wa Sta...
How a botched raid led to martial law in the Philippines
May 25, 2017 (AFP)
Three days later Marawi, the centre of Islam in the mainly Catholic Asian nation was swarmed by tanks, attack helicopters and thousands of troops fighting Islam...
Philippine troops bomb Islamist militants in city
May 25, 2017 (AFP)
An initial rampage by gunmen, who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, through the mainly Muslim city of Marawi on Tuesday prompted President Rod...
US-led strikes kill 35 civilians in east Syria: monitor
May 25, 2017 (AFP)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes hit a series of residential buildings in Mayadeen, a town in Syria's oil-rich eastern province of Deir ...
US grants Israel extra defence aid: Netanyahu
May 24, 2017 (AFP)
He did not say over what timeframe the money would be disbursed. The addition comes on the heels of a weekend announcement of a massive US-Saudi arms deal. Unde...
NATO to join anti-IS coalition: diplomatic sources
May 24, 2017 (AFP)
Trump was due to meet NATO leaders in Brussels on Thursday to press his case, with the deadly IS-claimed bomb attack in Manchester high on the agenda. Earlier W...
Convoy hit by coalition in Syria likely 'Iranian-directed': Mattis
May 19, 2017 (AFP)
The strike on the convoy heading toward a coalition garrison near the Jordanian border was "necessitated by offensive movement with offensive capability of what...
U-2S Dragon Lady appears at Northern Edge exercise
May 19, 2017 (UPI)
The U-2S is based out of the 9th Reconnaissance squadron from Beale Air Force Base, Calif., to test new technologies on this later version of the 5th generation...
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