South Sudan President Salva Kiir called Wednesday for a “national dialogue” to end the three-year-long civil war in the country. In a speech to parliament, Kiir, whose wrangling for power with his former deputy Riek Machar plunged the world’s newest nation into a brutal, destructive and ongoing civil war in ...
Russia’s defense ministry said on Wednesday that the militants broke a truce intended to allow them to evacuate from eastern Aleppo, prompting the Syrian army to resume its operation there. The ministry said that its military monitors in Syria had organized the evacuation of militants from the city by bus ...