Iran blamed Western and Arab countries on Friday for the failure of Kofi Annan’s Syria peace plan, the official IRNA news agency said on Friday, a day after the former U.N. secretary general quit as international envoy. Annan said on Thursday he was
Oil companies losing billions as spills are having devastating effects on the environment in the Niger Delta region.
UN prepares to denounce Syria for unleashing tanks and air power, and demand regime refrain from chemical weapons use.
Iraq attacks mainly targeting security force personnel killed at least 33 people on Thursday, officials said, after government figures showed July was the bloodiest month in almost two years. At least 39 people have been killed in violence
UN prepares to denounce Syria for unleashing tanks and air power, and demand regime refrain from chemical weapons use.
At least 21 civilians have been killed on Friday in shelling by the Syrian regime forces on the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. “The number of people killed by the mortar at
Afgoye was once a byword for misery; controlled by Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked Shebab fighters, the region, long hit by famine, was dubbed the world’s largest camp for displaced people. Today, two months after African Union (AU) troops an
An Italian embassy security agent kidnapped in Yemen over the weekend was freed Thursday in the province of Mareb east of the capital Sanaa, a tribal source and a local official said. Alessandro Spadotto was released following “tribal med