ISIS claimed responsibility for downing a MiG-23 from Libya's internationally recognized government as it carried out air-strikes in Benghazi—the third warplane lost in a week.
Left-populist presidential candidate Gregorio Santos Guerrero insists he will run in Peru's April election—despite remaining behind bars at Ancón I prison outside Lima.
Crude from an oil pipeline spill in northern Peru has spread due to rainfall and reached the Río Marañon, a major tributary of the Amazon, local indigenous leaders warned.
Amnesty International reports that nearly five years after Bahrain's Day of Rage protests sparked international concern over human rights, the hope for reform has dwindled.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society said Israel was "not showing willingness" to solve the case of Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq as he entered day 77 on hunger strike.
In a letter to the Pentagon, Amnesty International says that Guantánamo detainee Mustafa al-Hawsawi, one of the accused 9-11 ring-leaders, is in desperate need of medical care.
The body of Anabel Flores Salazar, a crime reporter abducted from her home in Mexico's Veracruz state, was found the following day in the neighboring state of Puebla.
Colombia's Constitutional Court overturned provisions of the government's new National Development Plan that allowed mining in the ecologically critical high alpine zones.
Amid concerns over impunity for past atrocities in Colombia's peace process, cases are pending against fighters from the FARC, national army and paramilitaries alike.
ELN rebels attacked an army barracks in Arauca and President Manuel Santos pledged to strike back hard—dashing hopes for a peace dialogue with Colombia's second guerilla group.
Scuffles broke out between pro-Kurdish protesters and police outside the National Higher Studies Institute in Quito where Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was speaking.
As Syrian regime troops and Russian warplanes advance on Aleppo, some 100,000 have fled the city for the Turkish border—prompting Turkey and Saudi Arabia to threaten intervention.
