civil war

Ch ina has recently sent a team to Myanmar to monitor a ceasefire it brokered between the country’s ruling military and a rebel group, China’s foreign ministry said, signalling its…

Gunmen and security forces linked to Syria’s new Islamist rulers have killed more than 340 people, including women and children from the Alawite minority, in the country’s coastal region since…

Gunmen loyal to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad killed 48 security personnel, in attacks it described as the “most violent” since the longtime president’s ouster. The fighting took place in the Mediterranean…

Bashar al-Assad and his family have arrived in Moscow and been granted asylum “out of humanitarian considerations”, Russian news agencies are quoting a Kremlin source as saying. Russian state TV…