The Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 is battling Congolese government forces in Congo's key city of Goma, causing the ...

Flags are flying half-mast in South Africa as bodies of deceased soldiers are being repatriated, but questions about the ...

Israel's defence minister ordered the army on Thursday to prepare for "voluntary" departures from Gaza, as US President ...

Private Sean Rooney was killed when a convoy of Irish peacekeepers he was travelling with were ambushed in Lebanon in ...

Refugees head to Rwanda even as Congo and the UN accuse it of fueling the conflict with its own troops and weapons.

Israel withdrew soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005. The territory has been ruled by Hamas since 2007 but is still considered to be under Israeli occupation by the United Nations. Israel and ...