It was a shocking sight and the putrid smell almost made me vomit: A hundred dead cows were spread across the dry plain in various stages of decomposition. Flies buzzed...

The broadcasts, heavily edited images of men, some in orange jumpsuits, seated alone against a stark backdrop, did little to answer who was actually behind the attacks....

The whole village sprang into battle mode. Boys grabbed rusty rifles, women ran to the river to hide in the water, old men stood sentry on the village outskirts,...

The Iraqi capital Baghdad has been hit with several explosions that have left at least 101 people dead and more than 180 people wounded. Early reports say three...

A group of radical Sikh supporters clashed with the police in Ludhiana on Saturday protesting a public meeting of Dera Noor Mahal chief Ashutosh Maharaj.

Tales of conflict emerging from this remote, arid region of Kenya have disturbing echoes of the lethal building blocks that turned Darfur into a killing ground in...

Robert Gabriel Mugabe is a man of extremes. His reactions are very seldom ‘middle of the road’ – no, he prefers the sublime or the ridiculous. Nothing in...

Sandra doesn’t go outside after dark anymore. She lives in one of this city’s most notorious areas, where rival gangs have turned streets into war zones. “It was...

At least 47 people have been killed in fighting between rival groups in southern Sudan in the latest round of bloody clashes in the troubled region. This attack was...

Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms abducted and killed at least 13 people in a village west of Baghdad, in what some described as revenge against Sunnis who helped...

THE U.P. BIHAR IMBROGLIO STATUTORY WARNING: I INTEND MAKING POLITICALLY INCORRRECT STATEMENTS. THIS MAY NOT BE TOLERABLE TO SOME BUT IT IS MY INTENTION TO LET READERS...

It’s been an almost endless summer in Lebanon, with beach weather and relative political harmony continuing well into November. The only thing marring what could...

The message Maoists have given by ambushing jawans in the market place just outside their camp shows that they are not going to give up the violence. I think we have...

Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico’s drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor. A woman with wealth obtained...

We know the old story; A forest used to be ruled by a lion one day another tiger also came to that forest. Soon a turf war broke out forcing the weaker one to leave the...

A number of events has projected Brazil into the headlines of international news, besides the traditional stories about violence, natural catastrophes or environmental...

Violence in Iraq has been reduced, as Western generals and politicians are keen to point out, but it has not gone away. If anything, it has become more deeply...

Nearly half of all Iraqis who died in October perished in a single coordinated attack against government offices in Baghdad, a tally by The Associated Press showed...

A suicide bomber killed 30 people outside a bank near Pakistan’s capital Monday, as the U.N. said spreading violence had forced it to pull out some expatriate...

Suicide bombers driving two large vehicle bombs again penetrated the heart of Baghdad today, killing 147 people and wounding more than 700, less than three months...