War and Conflict

Recent Developments. Since the United States withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in May 2018, tensions have risen between the ...

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that in his meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday he will stress the need for political resolution to the ...

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On Saturday, July 20th, U.S. officials announced a new intelligence and surveillance initiative which is centred on the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

But minutes after Hami left, a rocket slammed into the neighbor’s house. He rushed back, he said, to find “blood everywhere.” His mother was face down, her back riddled with shrapnel. “The other old lady was torn into pieces,” recalled Hami, 36. For nearly two months, this besieged North African capital of more than 1 million people has been ensnared in its worst episode of violence since the toppling of Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi almost eight years ago. The forces of renegade commander Khalifa Hifter have reached the city’s southern edges and are battling a constellation of militias a...

The disappearance of the Soviet Union left a big hole. The “war on terror” was an inadequate replacement. But China ticks all boxes. For the US, it can be the ideological, military and economic enemy many need. Here at last is a worthwhile opponent. That was the main conclusion I drew from this year’s Bilderberg meetings. Across-the-board rivalry with China is becoming an organising principle of US economic, foreign and security policies. Whether it is Donald Trump’s organising principle is less important. The US president has the gut instincts of a nationalist and protectionist. Others pro...

The U.S. must grasp the magnitude of the crisis Iraq could face if a clash with Iran draws in Iran's proxies.

Digging deeper into the current tensions, a number of experts interviewed by Military Times noted that the likelihood of war with Iran is small but current buildup ...

Only a minority of Americans would favor US soldiers fighting on the island, but a decision to not to intervene in a conflict would represent a dramatic shift in ...

The author is an Italian peace researcher and award-winning journalist. The original article was first published under the title “Da Sigonella in poi” in Mosaico di ...

The death toll from a devastating war in Yemen could soar to nearly a quarter of a million by the end of 2019, the United Nations (UN) has warned, calling the ...

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari on Thursday urged the federal government to counter hybrid warfare of western world with new tools ...

We are heading to the 2020's amid politics of escalation in the Middle East, which has been a global war zone for the last 100 years. At the center of this ...

The South China Sea remains one of the tensest hotspots in the Asia-Pacific region, with growing potential to erupt into a conflict with global implications.

Protesters gathered on Sunday in the southern Syrian city of Daraa to protest the construction of a statue of President Bashar Assad's father and predecessor, ...

Over the past year, China's foreign policymakers have been scrambling to cope with growing friction with the U.S. How is it that.

The war is still a costly and futile project that does nothing to serve U.S. interests or move Afghanistan meaningfully toward political reconciliation or peace.

A continued deterioration of Gaza's civilian infrastructure will continue to put pressure on Hamas, which could lead to another violent clash with Israel.

The pledge by African leaders attending the 32nd African Union summit in Addis Ababa to “silence all guns in the continent by 2020” is a very ambitious goal, yet ...

And that number has only risen in the past few years.

Some 13000 people have been killed, a quarter of them civilians, and as many as 30000 wounded in the war in eastern Ukraine since it broke out in April 2014, ...

US President Donald Trump's sudden announcement that US troops would be withdrawn from Syria signals further acrimony towards the Kurdish minority. In the ...

The world is changing. For many of us, our lives have been dominated by the bipolar rigid competition of the Cold War and the global growth and stability.

Russia and China are supporting Venezuela's Maduro-led government while Western allies back change.

'There is a political will demonstrated by all parties to put an end to this conflict'