After nearly three decades of warfare, armed conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has only intensified.The Rwanda-backed M23 rebellion – which claims to control the main eastern ...

Battle for control of central African nation fuelled by increasing demand for minerals crucial in manufacture of smartphones ...

Colombia's record-high cocaine production is fueling instability, corruption, and violence, threatening the nation's economy ...

Congolese security forces have tried to slow the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who say they have captured Goma after entering eastern Congo’s largest city ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels capture Goma, East Congo, amid escalating conflict and humanitarian crisis. U.N. reports violence ...

A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region ...

Human Rights Watch’s research found that state security and defense forces killed, threatened, arbitrarily arrested and used ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender troops. It is likely to set in motion a future ...

In Peru, out of 20,000 disappeared people, only 3,200 remains have been found. In Colombia, five decades of war left a ...

A rebel alliance spearheaded by the ethnic Tutsi-led M23 militia said it had seized the lakeside city of more than 2 million ...