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Thousands flee fighting on Myanmar's border with China
Jan 11, 2017 (AFP)
Thousands of people fled heavy fighting on Myanmar's northern border with China overnight, activists said Wednesday, as the government blocked a senior UN offic...
Cypriot leaders press bid to reach peace deal
Jan 10, 2017 (AFP)
Rival Cypriot leaders returned to the negotiating table Tuesday to press on with a bid to end their country's 42-year-old division, but hopes of a deal hung in ...
Syria's Assad vows to retake key area near Damascus
Jan 10, 2017 (AFP)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to retake an area that supplies Damascus with water and rejected any negotiations on his departure at upcoming talks ...
US-led raid on IS leaders in Syria 'successful': Pentagon
Jan 09, 2017 (AFP)
US special operations troops carried out a "successful" raid in Syria against leaders of the Islamic State group in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, a Pentag...
Cyprus future in the balance as new peace talks begin
Jan 09, 2017 (AFP)
Rival Cypriot leaders resumed UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva on Monday billed as a historic opportunity to end decades of conflict on the divided island, but...
Historic Cyprus peace in balance at Geneva talks
Jan 08, 2017 (AFP)
Rival Cypriot leaders hold UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva from Monday billed as a historic opportunity to end decades of division on the island but the outc...
Iraq PM says Turkish troop problem solved soon
Jan 07, 2017 (AFP)
Iraq and Turkey's prime ministers held talks Saturday in Baghdad which both said reflected progress in resolving a bitter row over the presence of Turkish troop...
Coalition strike kills senior IS leader in Syria: US
Jan 06, 2017 (AFP)
The US-based coalition has killed a senior Islamic State group facilitator in an air strike in the extremists' self-proclaimed capital of Raqa, the US military ...
Russia starts scaling down Syria military deployment
Jan 06, 2017 (AFP)
Russia's military on Friday said it has begun scaling back its deployment to Syria, with Moscow's sole aircraft carrier ordered to leave the conflict zone first...
Scars haunt Colombian rebels as they disarm
Jan 05, 2017 (AFP)
Jair's missing right leg reminds him of many things: the heavy price he paid for fighting in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the pain he inflicte...
Pentagon scraps Iraq, Afghan enlistment bonus repayments
Jan 04, 2017 (AFP)
The Pentagon said Tuesday it was dropping its efforts to recoup recruitment bonuses paid to more than 15,000 California National Guard staff a decade ago to get...
US ready to help Turkish forces in Syria
Jan 04, 2017 (AFP)
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group is prepared to support Turkish forces battling the fighters in northern Syria, a US military official said...
Cyprus peace opportunity: use it or lose it, says UN envoy
Jan 04, 2017 (AFP)
The UN's envoy for Cyprus on Wednesday warned parties in the divided island's peace talks that they had to seize a golden opportunity for reunification. "The ch...
Fighting puts Syria peace negotiations at risk
Jan 03, 2017 (AFP)
A dozen Syrian rebel factions have suspended talks on new peace negotiations, accusing President Bashar al-Assad's regime of violating a four-day-old ceasefire ...
Ex-Qaeda affiliate leaders among 25 dead in Syria strike
Jan 03, 2017 (AFP)
An air strike in Syria on Tuesday killed at least 25 members of former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front including senior figures, a monitor said. Unidenti...
Turkey to press on with Syria operation despite Istanbul attack: deputy PM
Jan 02, 2017 (AFP)
Turkey will press on with its military operation in Syria despite the deadly attack on an Istanbul nightclub that was a "message" against the campaign, Deputy P...
Bombing, air strikes kill 25 in Yemen
Jan 02, 2017 (AFP)
Eleven civilians, including five members of one family, and 14 Huthi rebels have been killed in shelling and air strikes in Yemen in two days, military and rebe...
Colombia's war traumas leave deep mental scars
Jan 02, 2017 (AFP)
Colombian rebels may be preparing to lay down their guns, but the nation faces a deeper challenge to heal itself: treating mental illnesses stemming from the tr...
FARC rebels look to New Year to consolidate peace
Jan 01, 2017 (AFP)
Like many Colombians, Johana Martinez and Fabio Grinon are hoping peace will finally take hold in 2017. But for the couple -- both FARC rebels -- it will mean a...
Lawmakers in Colombia pass FARC amnesty law
Dec 29, 2016 (AFP)
Colombia's Congress on Wednesday passed a law granting amnesty to FARC rebels as part of the country's peace deal, a development the government hailed as "histo...
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