The US aids Syrian Kurds against ISIS even as it acquiesces in Turkey's counterinsurgency against allied Kurdish forces just across the border—undermining anti-ISIS unity.
Mass graves at liberated Mount Sinjar are being disturbed, threatening critical evidence in proving possible genocide committed against the Yazidis, according to Human Rights Watch.
Counterpunch runs a piece of abject revisionism on the Syrian Revolution by Bouthaina Shaaban, official public relations advisor for the genocidal regime of Bashar Assad.
President Ma Ying-jeou's provocative visit to the disputed Spratly Islands seems aimed at pressing the incoming Tsai Ing-wen to adopt a "one China" position.
Amnesty International reports that satellite images show five possible mass graves in Burundi, which may be connected to December's massacre of protesters.
The conflict in Libya has meant war between two ethnic groups in the remote Sahara, with the Tebu loyal to the "official" government in the country's east and the Tuareg recognizing the Islamist regime that holds Tripoli. Fighting between the… Read moreRelief for Libya’s ‘Chinese Camp’?
The conflict over Western Sahara spilled into Morocco as clashes between Berber and Sahrawi Arab students at universities in Marrakech and Agadir left two dead.
With Turkey insisting that the Syrian Kurds be barred from upcoming Geneva peace talks, Russia is pressing for their participation—while pursuing its grisly campaign of aerial terror.
Amnesty International released a report finding 160 juvenile offenders are currently on death row in Iran, with 73 executions of juvenile offenders carried out over the past decade.
The internationally-recognized Libyan parliament, exiled to the country's east, voted to reject a UN-brokered pact with the rebel regime in Tripoli to form a unity government.
As Boko Haram continues its campaign of suicide attacks in northern Cameroon, the army is enforcing a "free-fire zone" along the Nigerian border, claiming still more local lives.
In anticipation of the fifth anniversary of the start of the Egyptian revolution, authorities have clamped down on dissidents in an effort to avoid further political unrest.
