Conflicts / War / Peace

By Stephanie Nebehay and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday that she had received...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden has agreed with a Pentagon recommendation to stick with the Aug. 31 Afghanistan withdrawal...

By Alexander Cornwell DOHA (Reuters) -Millions of Afghans could soon face starvation due to a combination of conflict, drought and...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban has appointed former Guantanamo detainee mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir as acting defense minister, Qatari based...

(Reuters) - The European Union will continue to advocate democracy and human rights in the world beyond the end of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden sent CIA Director William Burns to meet Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul...

(Reuters) - Millions of Afghans could soon face starvation due to the combination of conflict, drought and the coronavirus pandemic,...

GENEVA (Reuters) -China's envoy told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday that the U.S. army and the militaries of...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland has evacuated 292 people from Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said on Tuesday, while Switzerland would...

By Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) -Hissene Habre, the former strongman president of Chad and security ally of the West during...

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet is to report back in the September-October session on the situation...

AMMAN (Reuters) - An explosion at a training camp for jihadist fighters in opposition-held northwest Syria killed at least 10...

By Giulia Paravicini LONDON (Reuters) - The United States and European Union are raising alarm over the recent deployment of...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said on Tuesday in a parliamentary hearing that Rome was working...

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania has proposed that the European Union sanction Belarusian citizens and companies which it says are helping...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia, China, the United States and Pakistan are interested in serving as mediators in resolving the crisis in...

By Nafisa Eltahir and Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) -The World Health Organization only has enough supplies in Afghanistan to last...

DUBAI (Reuters) - The first flight carrying at-risk Afghan evacuees arrived in Kuwait, which has approved passage for 5,000 under...

(Reuters) - The EU announced a ramped-up Afghan aid programme that an official said it would seek safety guarantees on...

(Adds details in paragraphs 3 and 4) By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Law Society votes for...