Tag: war

Trauma lingers from DR Congo’s ‘Six-Day War,’ 20 years on

Twenty years ago, two East African countries came to blows in eastern Democratic Republic of...

Syria death toll for 2019 lowest in civil war: monitor

Syria's nearly nine-year-old conflict which has cost more than 370,000 lives recorded its lowest annual...

2019 deadliest year for Colombia’s ex-FARC combatants: UN

The past year has been the deadliest for ex-FARC combatants in Colombia since the former...

Brazil in ‘civil war,’ says head of Congress’ pro-gun faction

Brazil is caught in a "civil war" of crime and violence, the head of Congress'...

Qatar rules out war between US and Iran

Qatar's defence minister ruled out yesterday the possibility of a war between the United States...

Afghan generation knows only conflict as war turns 18

Afghanistan's war cost 13-year-old shoe shiner Hameedullah his education. Poverty forced Sabir, 11, to flee...

Countries that make weapons of war foment migration but refuse refugees, Pope Francis says

Pope Francis yesterday scolded countries that produce weapons for wars fought elsewhere and then refuse...

‘War continues’ despite new constitution committee: Syria

The creation of a UN-backed constitution-writing committee for Syria does not mean the country is...

No shellfire or bullets, but war still intrudes on tiny Syrian island

In the years before Syria's war the boatmakers of Arwad used to sell their wooden...

Beats replace bombs: young Iraqis revel at summer festival

Hundreds of Iraqi teenagers clapped along exuberantly to techno beats pumping across a makeshift dance...

Adidas fears ‘everybody will lose’ in US-China currency war

German sportswear maker Adidas warned Thursday that "everybody will lose" if a currency war ignites...

War with Iran is the mother of all wars: Iran president

War with Iran is the mother of all wars, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on...

China warns of war in case of move towards Taiwan independence

China warned on Wednesday that it was ready for war if there was any move...

Bosnia buries 86 victims of 1992-95 war recovered from grisly ravine

Thousands of relatives from Bosnia and across Europe gathered in the village of Hambarine...

‘You must be stupid’: Duterte says he won’t be tried by international court

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared he will never be tried by an international court...

US manufacturing sinks into recession amid trade wars

US manufacturing sunk into recession in June after two consecutive quarters of declines amid President...

UN rights council launches ‘review’ of Philippine drug war

The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday narrowly approved a resolution mandating a "comprehensive" international...

Calls for justice, intervention as Philippines buries drug war’s youngest known victim

One by one, a mother and her children splash holy water over a white coffin...

Executions ‘rampant’ in Philippine drug war, U.N. probe needed: Amnesty

Impunity and unlawful killings are going on unabated in the Philippines, three years into a...

Syrians dig, cook, fill sandbags in war with Assad

Away from the frontlines, volunteers are helping in the war against President Bashar al-Assad by...

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