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September 16, 2016

Obama to meet with leaders of Iraq, Nigeria and Colombia

President Barack Obama will review military strategy against the Islamic State group, press nations to admit more refugees ...

September 16, 2016

More than a million refugees have fled South Sudan, UN says

More than one million refugees have fled South Sudan's ongoing civil war, overwhelming aid agencies and creating one of the ...

September 14, 2016

US official says IS has lost half its territory in Iraq

Iraqi forces aided by the U.S.-led coalition have retaken half the territory the Islamic State group once held in the ...

September 09, 2016

Air raids, shelling in Syria's Aleppo kill 19

Volunteer first responders in Syria's Aleppo have pulled the bodies of nine people, including four children, from the rubble ...

September 09, 2016

Nigeria facing 'a famine unlike any we have ever seen'

The whimpers from skeletally thin babies too weak to cry are a harbinger of worse things to come: A quarter of the children ...

August 30, 2016

As refugee children die, Nigeria probes theft of food aid

Children who escaped Boko Haram's Islamic insurgency now are dying of starvation in refugee camps in northeastern Nigeria's ...

August 26, 2016

Rebels, civilians leave town after four-year siege

Escorted by armed troops, dozens of insurgents and their families left this war-wrecked suburb of the Syrian capital on ...

August 25, 2016

Rebels, residents to evacuate long-besieged Damascus suburb

After four years of grueling bombardment and crippling siege, the remaining residents and rebels of a Damascus suburb agreed ...

August 25, 2016

Kerry in Saudi Arabia for talks on Yemen, Syria conflicts

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Saudi King Salman in the Red Sea city of Jiddah on Thursday ahead of wider talks ...

August 23, 2016

The Latest: UN says 65,000 fled fighting in Syria's Hasakeh

The Latest on the Syrian civil war (all times local): 10 p.m. The United Nations says it's extremely concerned at the plight ...

August 22, 2016

Kerry: South Sudan agrees to deployment of regional force

East African foreign ministers from countries including South Sudan have agreed to move ahead with the deployment of a ...

August 20, 2016

AP EXPLAINS: How South Sudan rebel's flight adds to turmoil

South Sudan, the world's newest country, is in political limbo after rebel leader and former vice president Riek Machar fled ...

August 19, 2016

AP EXPLAINS: What flight of South Sudan's rebel leader means

South Sudan, the world's newest country, was in political limbo Friday after rebel leader and former vice president Riek ...

August 14, 2016

Boko Haram: Some abducted Chibok girls killed in air strikes

The mother of one of the Chibok girls kidnapped more than two years ago by Nigeria's Islamic extremists on Sunday saw the ...

July 29, 2016

UN suspends aid to dangerous areas of northeast Nigeria

The United Nations is suspending aid to dangerous areas of Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, where it says a half million ...

July 25, 2016

UN calls for 48-hour humanitarian pause in Syria's Aleppo

Weekly 48-hour humanitarian pauses are urgently needed in Syria's Aleppo city where fighting has left over a quarter of a ...

July 17, 2016

Syrian troops besiege rebel-held parts of Aleppo

Syrian government forces closed the only road leading into and out of rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo on ...

July 12, 2016

AP EXPLAINS: Why South Sudan is again torn by fighting

An uneasy calm settled over South Sudan's capital on Tuesday after the country's leader and his top rival both demanded a ...

July 11, 2016

A look at South Sudan, a young country divided by civil war

Renewed fighting between opposing army forces has raised fears of a return to civil war in South Sudan, which over the ...