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A Syrian civil defence member uses an oxygen mask after a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib.
Conflict
‘Shocking’ video shows alleged chemical attack in Syria. But will it have an impact?
A girl carries a bowl filled with water, in the rebel held besieged town of Douma, eastern Damascus.
Conflict
Water is scarce in Damascus, and so is faith in a new ceasefire
Aleppo residents scan the scan the skies fearing an airstrike in the rebel-held al-Myassar neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria.
Conflict
In besieged Aleppo, death from above can come at any moment
Abu Ezzat in the Old City of Aleppo.
Conflict
A father in Aleppo frets about five of his sons on rebel frontlines
Cuba's President Raul Castro oversees a handshake between Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos (left) and FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono (right), better known by the nom de guerre Timochenko.
Conflict
Bitter foes strike a deal for peace in Colombia
General Ruben Dario Alzate was kidnapped by FARC in a village close to the provincial capital of Quibdó in northwestern Colombia.
Conflict
A Colombian general’s bizarre behavior may have derailed his country’s fragile peace talks
A fighter from the Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra, the official Syrian branch of al-Qaeda. The group is a powerful militia in the Syrian civil war and has battled with ISIS, but is a State Department-listed terrorist group.
Conflict
A grieving British father grapples with his sons’ decision to fight and die in Syria
Syrian rebels say Abu Hurayra al-Amriki is a US citizen who successfully detonated a suicide bomber in Syria's Idlib province on Sunday.
Conflict & Justice
What does it mean if the first American suicide bomber in Syria has hit his target?
Vehicles burn after two car bombs exploded in the Karm al-Louz neighbourhood in Homs.
Conflict & Justice
Why some rebels are ‘determined to make a last stand’ in the Syrian city of Homs
A Syrian girl is rescued from a damaged building after both of her parents died in what activists said was a government air strike.
Global Politics
Iran’s role in Syria peace talks throws discussions into disarray
Salva Kiir and Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta
Conflict & Justice
So far there are few signs of any progress in ending the violence in South Sudan
Displaced people stay in makeshift tents inside Tomping United Nations base
Conflict & Justice
No good news out of South Sudan on this Christmas Eve
Syrian families were allowed to flee rebel-controlled Moadamiya Tuesday, in a rare instance of coordination between the Syrian government and the opposition.
Conflict & Justice
Syrian regime surrounds rebel neighborhoods with a message: surrender or starve
Free Syrian Army fighters carry a fellow fighter after he was wounded on the front line in Aleppo's Sheikh Saeed neighbourhood, September 21, 2013.
Global Politics
Syrian rebel coalition says no to government-in-exile, yes to Islam
Global Politics
South Sudan: A Young Nation on a Razor’s Edge
Environment
Peru’s president orders environmental clean-up in Amazon oil region
Business, Economics and Jobs
As Spain’s economy sags, professionals look abroad for work
Press freedom hard to come by in South Sudan
Conflict & Justice
Peruvians Protest Against Poverty and Corruption
Global Politics
China Struggles to End Hostilities along Oil-Rich Sudan Border
Global Politics
New Crisis in Congo
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Global Politics
Why Spain’s Unemployed Are Heading For Germany
Conflict & Justice
Testing Press Freedoms in South Sudan
Peru’s political divide
Conflict & Justice
Frenemies: Congo and Rwanda team up to fight rebels
Global Politics
Government and rebel troops clash in Democratic Republic of Congo
Conflict & Justice
Congolese general arrested
Conflict & Justice
Congo’s rebel leader