A look at Sri Lanka’s troubled recent history marked by war
Here is a look at a long and troubled history marked by ethnic and religious divides after a series of blasts in and outside Sri Lanka’s capital on Easter Sunday, blamed on religious extremists, recalled the worst days of the…
Easter Sunday bomb blasts kill more than 200 in Sri Lanka
More than 200 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in eight bomb blasts that rocked churches and luxury hotels in or near Sri Lanka's capital on Easter Sunday — the deadliest violence the South Asian island country has seen…
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Yemen’s ongoing civil war creates a life of loss for children
As the civil war in Yemen enters its sixth year, tens of thousands have died in the fighting, while disease and hunger have killed thousands more. The many children who have lost or been abandoned by parents have suffered the…
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Senate takes aim at Yemen, bin Salman as UN peace talks progress
The U.N. has announced a ceasefire in Hodeidah, a port city critical to the flow of humanitarian aid into Yemen. Meanwhile, the Senate passed a resolution directing the Trump administration to withdraw its support of Saudi forces in the ongoing…
In a positive sign, the U.N. envoy said the warring sides had agreed on a prisoner exchange as a first step toward building confidence.
The civil war that erupted in late 2013, just two years after South Sudan won independence from Sudan, has killed tens of thousands and created Africa's largest refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
To help families and scholars, search for enslaved individuals and their descendants, Michigan State University researchers are launching a new project called "Enslaved: The People of the Historic Slave Trade."…
More than three years into civil war, the Yemeni people are suffering from the fastest-spreading cholera epidemic in history, while millions are on the brink of famine -- a crisis worsened by a Saudi blockade. William Brangham reports and Judy…
This week, the United Nations war crimes tribunal will deliver a verdict in the trial of a former general accused of ethnic cleansing during the former Yugoslavia’s civil war. Twenty-two years after the war, residents of Bosnia continue to struggle…
