The powerful 7.7 magnitude quake struck at around 12.50pm local time (6.20am UK time) near the second-biggest city Mandalay ...

Recent revisions to the country’s 2004 National Armed Forces Law have broken down the firewall between the military and ...

The United Nations has condemned reports by local rights groups of extrajudicial killings taking place in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, which the Sudanese military recaptured last month ...

Sectarian-driven killings of civilians this month displayed the government’s weak control over both its own forces and affiliated fighters, experts said.

South Sudan’s government has asked civilians to leave a northern area a day after the army conducted an airstrike against an armed group accused of overrunning a military base and attacking a U JUBA, ...

Indonesia’s Parliament has unanimously voted to pass a controversial revision of its military law that will expand the armed forces’ role in civilian affairs despite growing opposition from ...

In Ituri province - above North-Kivu - violence between CODECO and Zaïre armed groups has worsened, with civilians near mining zones and farmland bearing the brunt of the attacks. The security ...