Eight boats in the hands of Somali pirates following spate of hijackings. Zimbabwe calls UN human rights experts a gatecrasher. US officials seek resolution prior to Honduran elections. Venezuela accuses Colombia of US-backed espionage. India will withdraw troops from Jammu. All this and more in t
Japan and US military agreement could be in doubt. Attack on Somali president leaves 30 dead in Mogadishu. Pakistani brigadier killed in Islamabad. Iran nuclear deal could be agreed by Friday. South Sudan rejects referendum agreement, and more in today's security briefing
Noordin Mohammed Top, one of the most wanted terrorists in South East Asia was killed this morning in a raid on a militant hideout in central Java, Indonesian officials claimed.
The UN has issued two reports detailing human rights abuses and possible war crimes committed during heavy fighting in the eastern DRC in 2008. Abuses were carried out against civilians
The latest in a series of violent attacks by drug cartels saw patients of a rehabilitation clinic lined up in a corridor and shot dead in the border town on
The outgoing UNAMID force commander, Martin Luther Agwai , has said that there is no longer a war in Darfur. Although he did not rule out the possibility of a future
Afghanistan's election day has already borne witness to a gun battle in Kabul between police and suspected suicide bombers, rockets falling in Kandahar, a series of attacks in
Bloody clashes between Hamas security forces and Al-Qaida-affiliated militants on 14 August have left up to 28 dead and 100 injured. The fighting broke out at the Ibn Taymiyah Mosque
At his first press conference as NATO secretary general on 3 August, Anders Fogh Rasmussen outlined a number of priorities. Top of the list was assistance to Afghanistan. In Rasmussen&
