Tag: army

Former Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaore goes on trial next week over the deadly crackdown against the popular uprising that ...

Ugandan troops have pulled out of the hunt for rebel leader Joseph Kony in the Central African Republic (CAR), the ...

The Ugandan army said Wednesday it has neutralised the Lord's Resistance Army, as troops began withdrawing from the Central African ...

Pakistan's powerful army chief has confirmed the death sentences passed by military courts on 30 militants, some of whom were ...

A bomb killed six people and wounded more than 30 in Syria's second city Aleppo on Wednesday, state television reported. ...

One of the founding fathers of the internet, Robert Taylor, has died. While working at the Pentagon in the 1960s, ...

One soldier enjoys a cigarette, another sits reading quietly on the riverbank: seen from the Chinese side of the border, ...

Six months since Iraqi forces launched a vast operation to oust the Islamic State group from second city Mosul, they ...

Egyptian Coptic Christians observed Easter Mass under tight security on Saturday with the ancient minority still reeling from twin church ...

Egyptian Copts will celebrate Easter mass on Saturday, marking one of Christianity's most joyous occasions just days after the deadliest ...

North Korea's military forces were massed in Pyongyang early Saturday for a show of strength by leader Kim Jong-Un as ...

Egyptian Copts observed a solemn Good Friday with prayers and fasting, as the community reeled from two church bombings that ...

Egyptian Copts observed a solemn Good Friday with prayers and fasting, as the community reeled from two church bombings that ...

A suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town in Syria's Idlib province on April 4 killed dozens of people. Western ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has denied ordering last week's suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town, believes his victory ...

With tens of thousands of adoring citizens looking on --along with invited international media -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ...

Amnesty International has slammed an unprecedented ban by Thailand's junta on using the internet to communicate with three trenchant critics ...

A bloody clash between the army and police in Nigeria's restive northeastern Yobe state left one soldier and three police ...

Islamic militants who landed on a Philippine tourist island triggering deadly clashes with security forces had planned to stage a ...

The Philippines sent military reinforcements to one of its most famous tourist islands Wednesday as a deadly operation to flush ...