Category: 3. Middle East

Two days after they were abducted from their beds by armed attackers, 24 Nigerian schoolgirls are still missing as the military intensifies its efforts to rescue them.

Bogota, Colombia – Eight underage rebel recruits were killed last week after the Colombian government launched a fresh military offensive against a prominent armed group, according to President Gustavo Petro.

The news comes amid soaring child…

CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli airstrikes killed 10 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in a part of the enclave under Hamas control since a shaky ceasefire took effect in October, health authorities said.

Medics said two people were killed in…

Israeli warplanes destroyed a number of buildings across several towns in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, after the military issued forced displacement orders for residents there. Israel is targeting what it claims are Hezbollah sites.

Harvard University, where Summers is a professor, is also set to open a probe into the allegations against him.

Former United States Treasury Secretary Larry Summers…

Residents of Lebanon’s Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp described their fear and astonishment a day after a deadly strike that Israel said targeted a Hamas compound, a claim the Palestinian militant group rejected.

Tuesday night’s raid,…

Last week, 42 migrants were presumed to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after their dinghy set sail off the Libyan coast.

At least 29 of them were Sudanese refugees who fled the catastrophic civil war in their country between the…

By Tarek Amara

TUNIS (Reuters) -Thousands of young doctors went on strike across Tunisia on Wednesday to demand higher pay and warn of an impending collapse of the health system, part of a broader wave of social unrest convulsing the country.

A…

Tom Fletcher says those responsible for deliberate attacks on civilians in western Darfur region must face justice.

Sudan’s el-Fasher has been transformed into a “crime scene”, the United Nations’ aid chief says, as the UN pushes for…