Goma: Congo has been witnessing a massive political crisis with Rwanda-backed rebels capturing the city of Goma and another town near the provincial capital of Bukavu. Amid the ongoing violence, it ...

Meanwhile, Congo is preparing a mass burial as the death toll due to the unrest nears 3,000. As per an internal UN document seen by BBC, around 165 to 167 women were assaulted by male inmates ...

Today's rundown includes US deporting illegal Indian migrants in chained condition, over 100 women raped in Congo while death toll neared 3000 amid fighting, Trump signing an executive order to ...

Instead of strengthening a weakened military—his primary duty as commander-in-chief—Obama evidently believed that it was more important to open all combat jobs to women. Assigning women to ...

"We are verifying reports that 52 women were raped by Congolese troops in South Kivu ... deepening the risk of ...

The military announced gender-neutral standards for combat roles in 2016. In his public bid to become the next defense secretary, former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth told a Senate panel on ...

GOMA, Congo — Congolese security ... including newborns and pregnant women,” Lemarquis said on Monday, describing active combat zones in all areas of the city. Aid groups are unable to reach ...

adding the U.N. is verifying reports that Congolese troops raped 52 women in South Kivu. Goma’s capture has brought humanitarian operations to “a standstill, cutting off a vital lifeline for ...

adding the U.N. is verifying reports that Congolese troops raped 52 women in South Kivu. Goma’s capture has brought humanitarian operations to “a standstill, cutting off a vital lifeline for ...

“Women who are being raped in the east of Congo, children who are being killed ... where troop-contributing countries engage in combat and war.” ...

If Hegseth is confirmed and restricts women from combat roles, "our military can no longer do its job," Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., said Thursday, after she declared in a floor speech that he is ...