Vladimir Putin grabbed much of Donbas, an eastern region of Ukraine, and pretended he had not. As a figleaf he used ...

This week, conflict and crisis dominate the headlines. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, M23 rebels have seized the ...

Wearing T-shirts and flip-flops, scores of young men lined up outside a stadium in eastern DR Congo on Friday, ready to take ...

As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, they are likely to ...

The southern African grouping SADC held crisis talks Friday on the escalating conflict in the eastern DR Congo, with calls ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 group on Friday advanced south after seizing the biggest city in mineral-rich eastern DR Congo, in ...

The U.N. says Rwanda-backed rebels are expanding their presence in eastern Congo after capturing the region's major city.

Rwanda-backed rebels have captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely untapped.