The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

Rebels occupying the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma have declared a cease-fire but the government ...

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

The United Nations has warned the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is on the brink of a regional war, amid escalating ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic ...

Advances being made by the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo are "heightening the threat of a regional war," according to U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is no stranger to civil conflicts ... Congo, on the other side, has termed the fall of Goma “a declaration of war” and vowed a “vigorous military ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, ...

A U.N. official says Congolese rebels and allied Rwandan forces have entered the outskirts of Goma and the airport in the key ...