Popular demonstrations and nationwide sit-ins in Lebanon gained rejuvenated momentum today as Prime Minister Saad al Hariri handed his cabinet’s resignation to President Michel Aoun shortly after 3 pm GMT. Hariri earlier in the day announced his intention to the...
The way the United States tells it, launching devastating airstrikes on drug-making labs across western Afghanistan is needed to staunch a harmful trade that funds the Taliban’s rebellion against a weak central government. Think again, says the United Nations. A...
Fayez Al Sarraj is the chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya, a position by virtue of which he also holds the office of Prime Minister and therefore leader of the provisional government that was formed in Tripoli in March...
Last August marked 20 years since the momentous referendum vote which resulted in East Timor’s independence from Indonesia. But how did we get here, two decades later? To begin with, Portugal used to trade with Timor hundreds of years ago...
Majok Peter Awan was eight years old when a rebel military chief put a Kalashnikov assault rifle in his young hands and taught him to shoot at Sudanese government soldiers, during a civil war that ultimately won independence for the...
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres launched an investigation on Thursday into military strikes on hospitals and other civilian facilities in northwest Syria, amid growing fears that they were being deliberately targeted by the Syrian government and Russian forces. The probe...
The civil war in South Sudan between government forces and opposition forces broke out in December 2013 and is still ongoing. Almost 400,000 people have been estimated to likely have been killed, according to one report, with around half of...
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