South Korea has established diplomatic relations with Syria’s new Islamist government months after longtime leader Bashar ...

The top United Nations official in South Sudan urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to use its clout to prevent the world’s newest nation from again plunging into civil war. Nicholas ...

UN Envoy Urges Security Council to Try to Prevent Renewed Civil War in South Sudan UNITED NATIONS ... Recent fighting in the country’s north, the arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar ...

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South Sudan ... in the north between an armed group allied to Mr Machar and government forces, which the UN has warned, could plunge the country back into full-scale civil war.

Recent fighting in the country’s north ... and stability after oil-rich South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011. But the country slid into civil war in December 2013 when forces ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘The Last American Road Trip,’ Sarah ...

Talks of Civil War and regional differences are all the rage these days, and it's perhaps no more prevalent anywhere else than in the discussion of North vs. South. So it begs the question ...

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo) South Korea now has diplomatic relations with all 191 U.N. member states except for its war-divided rival, North Korea.

During Sudan’s second north-south civil war from 1983 to 2005, before South Sudan became independent, Khartoum sought to undermine the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), the main group ...