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One of the most lawless places on Earth is eastern Congo. It's also one of its most tragic - in Holocaust proportions. More than 5 million people have died there […]

Byline: EDDY ISANGO; Associated Press GOMA, CONGO -- Years of fighting in Congo's restive east ended yesterday, on paper at least, as warlords and militia fighters signed a long-awaited peace [...]

Byline: JEFFREY GETTLEMAN; New York Times News Service NAIROBI -- Dozens of people seeking refuge in a church were burned to death yesterday in an explosion of violence that is [...]

Byline: JEFFREY GETTLEMAN; New York Times News Service NAIROBI -- It took all of about 15 minutes yesterday, after Kenya's President was declared the winner of a deeply controversial election, [...]

The Lebanese soldiers passed cautiously along the sidewalk, weapons held ready as they spread out in two long columns along the quiet, tree-lined streets of the middle-class neighborhood of Ashrafiye. […]

RAMALLAH -- It doesn't look like anyone's idea of a presidential palace. In front of a large pile of crushed cars, two men in T-shirts and jeans carry light machine [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. - Malaysians have a moral responsibility to help victims of the Kampung Medan clashes overcome their trauma. Inter-faith Spiritual Fellowship (Insaf) chairman Dr Amir Farid Datuk Isahak [...]

Byline: Dana Milbank,Alexandra Petri The Compost, written by Dana Milbank and Alexandra Petri, offers a lighter take on the news and political in(s)anity of the day. If you believe life [...]

Violence in Iraq isn't likely to wind down soon, despite progress that's being made toward putting the country back on its feet... restoring basic services, such as hospitals, water and [...]

Opposition leader, MK Amram Mitzna said Tuesday that there was no real military way to protect the Jewish residents of Hebron. Mitzna told Israel Radio that the public should be [...]

Three Israelis are killed south of Hebron, when Palestinian militants open fire on their vehicle at an intersection near a settlement in the Hebron hills. (About 450 Israeli settlers live [...]

EU diplomats say Arafat's Fatah movement has agreed a declaration outlawing all attacks that target Israeli civilians. But the prospect of a formal announcement of the pledge looked in doubt [...]

Seven people are killed and more than 80 wounded by a bomb that explodes in a cafeteria at Jerusalem's Hebrew University at lunchtime. The Hamas military wing, Izzedine Al Qassam [...]

Palestinian eyewitnesses say Neveen Jamjoum, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl, is shot dead and nine people are wounded when Jewish settlers attack Arab homes in Hebron. But the Army says it [...]

At least 5 people are killed - including two foreign workers, a Romanian and an unidentified Asian - and up to 30 injured in a double suicide bombing at the [...]

Palestinian gunmen infiltrate the settlement of Itamar, near Nablus, storm into a Jewish house and open fire, killing six people, including a mother and three of her children, before one [...]

A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates his explosives at a bus stop near the French Hill neighbourhood in E. Jerusalem, killing at least 7 people, including himself, and wounding at least [...]

The suicide bomb attack blows apart a packed bus during rush hour near the Pat junction in southern Jerusalem, one of the city's busiest intersections, killing at least 19 Israelis [...]

A teenage girl is killed and 9 people are injured late at night when a suicide bomber strikes in Herzliya, the Tel Aviv suburb. Hours earlier, a bomb exploded near [...]

A Palestinian militant kills 3 Israeli youngsters in a religious seminary in the settlement of Itamar, near Nablus, before a settler shoots him dead. In a separate incident hours earlier, [...]

Maysoun Hayek and Tamar Lifshitz - Palestinian and Israeli pregnant women - give birth to healthy baby girls after they are shot without provocation in separate incidents. Hayek's husband, Mohammad, [...]

Imad Abu Sneina, a 25-year-old Fatah member wanted by Israel, is gunned down outside his home in Hebron by undercover agents. Later, thousands of Palestinians attended his funeral and called [...]

The following are excerpts from an article in IHT written by Israeli Arab MP Azmy Bishara's brother, Marwan Bishara who teaches at the American University of Paris and is a [...]

The article reports on the Arab Spring uprising and the subsequent conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa which have lowered the life expectancy in countries such as Syria, Yemen, and Tunisia, according to a research published in "The Lancet Global Health" journal.

On September 30, 2000 a boy, Muhammad al-Dura, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during a gun battle at Netzarim junction. Or was he? Almost eight years after images [...]