As a UN Security Council draft resolution to pressure Syria failed after China and Russia voted against it, India said it backed the motion as it favoured resolving the crisis through a Syrian-led incRead Full Article ...
Western and Arab powers have reacted angrily to Russia and China's veto of a Security Council resolution on the Syria crisis, but Moscow and Beijing insisted t...
The United Nations Security Council has failed again to take decisive action to stop the escalating violence in Syria as Russia and China blocked a resolution ...
The draft resolution before the U.N. Security Council would demand an end to the bloody crackdown on government opponents in Syria.Read Full Article ...
The United Nations Security Council has failed again to take decisive action to stop the escalating violence in Syria as Russia and China blocked a resolution ...
In Syria prospects of ending the crisis look bleak, with the UN Security Council struggling to agree on an appropriate response. The Assad regime?s brutal crackdown, including shelling of central city Homs, shows no sign...
In Iraq, the official withdrawal of the last U.S. combat troops, nearly nine years after the invasion, was quickly followed by a political crisis. Authorities issued an arrest warrant for the country?s top Sunni politician,...
The Democratic Republic of Congo?s presidential and parliamentary vote went ahead on 28-30 November, after a campaign marred by violence and amid allegations of rigging and mismanagement. Political rallies were banned in the wake of...
Deadly clashes between government forces and the insurgent Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) broke out in the troubled southern Philippines in October.
In Sudan a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) offensive in Blue Nile state, and renewed clashes in Southern Kordofan between the SAF and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, fuelled fears of a return to civil war.