Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and ...

Fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo's military and Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 has intensified in recent days, prompting the United Nations to issue a warning.

From Cold War strategies to counterterrorism and development U.S. policy in East Africa must do better to balance security and sustainability. East Africa, comprising nations such as Ethiopia, Kenya, ...

France and the United States, expressing anger at what they said was foreign interference. Looters ransacked the embassy of Kenya. The U.S. State Department has ordered embassy staff to leave Congo, ...

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“What happened,” a senior Israeli official explained, “is that Witkoff delivered a stern message from the incoming president of the United States ... air and ground attacks against Jenin ...

But popular opposition to the war, and to the conscription of 20-year-olds to fight it, had grown rapidly since the late 1960s as the massive scale of the US bombings and killings in Vietnam ...

Hamada knew about these torments intimately, and during the war he travelled to Europe and the United States and gave searing ... After the crushing attacks in Hama, the regime had maintained ...