Conflicts / War / Peace

By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh on Monday extended its strictest lockdown to July 14 to combat a surge...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis is alert, breathing without assistance, and in a good overall condition following...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Government forces plan a counteroffensive in Afghanistan's northern provinces after losing ground to the Taliban, Russia's RIA news...

By Fanny Potkin SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Senior foreign executives of major telecommunications firms in Myanmar have been told by the...

ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi movement on Sunday carried out a rare missile strike on a southern region that has...

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Four soldiers were killed when their patrol was ambushed by suspected militants in central Mali on Sunday,...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's economy would not close again because of the coronavirus pandemic if it was just to protect...

NICOSIA (Reuters) -Four people were found dead as a huge fire raged for a second day in Cyprus, razing tracts...

By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Tigray region wants a full withdrawal of troops from Eritrea and the...

By Aidan Lewis RAS GARGOUB, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated a large naval base on Saturday...

(Removes extraneous word in fourth paragraph) KABUL (Reuters) -As American troops left their main military base in Afghanistan on Friday,...

By Michelle Nichols and Doyinsola Oladipo UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Top U.N. officials warned the Security Council on Friday that more...

JERUSALEM/DUBAI (Reuters) -Israeli defence officials were checking whether Iranian forces were behind a possible attack on a cargo ship under...

CAIRO - (Reuters) - Lebanese pro-Iranian TV channel Al Mayadeen said on Saturday in a post on Telegram that an...

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Thousands took to the streets of Burkina Faso's capital on Saturday to call for...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's highest court has agreed to hear former president Jacob Zuma's challenge against the 15-month jail...

By Michelle Nichols and Dawit Edenshaw UNITED NATIONS/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Friday conflict could rapidly...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran may face a fifth wave of COVID-19 infections as the highly contagious Delta variant of the...

(Reuters) - Myanmar security forces punched, slapped and beat a U.S. journalist and kept him blindfolded for more than a...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran denied on Saturday U.S. accusations that Tehran supported attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria,...