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Myanmar’s Army Still Abducts Civilians And Forces Them To Act As Human Shields

The United Nations estimates that recent fighting has forced at least 2,700 people to flee their homes, with hundreds heading across the border to nearby China.

Myanmar Poppy Eradication

NAMHKAM, Northern Myanmar — In mid-April, government soldiers ransacked the home of Mr. Gam, here in northern Myanmar’s Kachin State. Then, the 55-year-old farmer says, they forced him and five other civilians to guide a battalion to a mountain outpost belonging to their enemy: an ethnic guerrilla force known as the Kachin Independence Army

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Afghan Civilian Casualties Rise As NATO Pulls Out

The number of civilians killed and wounded in Afghanistan rose 14 percent last year, the UN said Saturday, as NATO troops draw down after more than a decade of war. A total of 8,615 civilian casualties were recorded in 2013, with 2,959 killed and 5,656 wounded, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan’s […]

Relatives surround the body of a ten-year-old Afghan girl who was killed by a roadside bomb explosion on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

The number of civilians killed and wounded in Afghanistan rose 14 percent last year, the UN said Saturday, as NATO troops draw down after more than a decade of war. A total of 8,615 civilian casualties were recorded in 2013, with 2,959 killed and 5,656 wounded, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan's annual

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Ukraine On ‘Brink Of Civil War’

Former President Leonid Kravchuk urges parliament to “act with the greatest responsibility” as it debates an amnesty for protesters.

An opposition supporter stands next to a burning tire at a barricade in central Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. Ukraine’s embattled president is taking sick leave, his office announced Thursday, a surprise development that left unclear how efforts to resolve the country’s political crisis would move forward. Protesters have been calling for his resignation for two months. The sign at right reads: "Peace to the Villages, War to the Palaces." (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Leonid Kravchuk, who served as Ukraine's first post-Soviet president from 1991 to 1994, urged parliament on Wednesday to "act with the greatest responsibility." "The entire world acknowledges and Ukraine acknowledges that the state is on the brink of civil war," he said as parliament prepared to debate an amnesty for detained

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Turkey Destroying Al Qaeda-Linked Convoy In Syria ‘Significant Escalation’

Turkish fighter jets destroyed a convoy belonging to Al Qaeda-linked militants fighting inside Syria, the armed forces confirmed on Wednesday.

Smugglers break through the border as they enter Syrian territory near Cilvegozu, Turkey, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Turkish fighter jets destroyed a convoy belonging to Al Qaeda-linked militants fighting inside Syria, the armed forces confirmed on Wednesday. Small arms fire struck a Turkish military outpost late Tuesday as the Free Syrian Army battled Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters, Al Jazeera said, citing Turkish media. The Turkish

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Pakistan’s Christians Caught In Midst Of Crossfire

Eighty-four people were killed, and 200 were injured, in the bloodiest attack ever carried out against the Christian community on Pakistani soil.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — There is little sign now of the blood and human remains that were strewn across the courtyard of the All Saints Church when two suicide bombers detonated their vests after Sunday mass last week. Thanks to a handful of churchgoers and sympathetic neighbors, the floors have been washed and the walls have been scrubbed. It is

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Russia: Syria Has ‘Material Evidence’ That Rebels Used Chemical Weapons

Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russian state TV, “We cannot but call the nature of conclusions drawn by U.N. experts… as politicized, biased and unilateral.”

In this citizen journalism image provided by the Media Office Of Douma City, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian man mourns over a dead body after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces, according to activists, in Douma town, Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Media Office Of Douma City)

Syria's government has provided "material evidence" that rebels have used chemical weapons in their battle to overthrow it, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday. Speaking after a meeting with Syrian officials in Damascus Tuesday night, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov slammed the United Nations report that detailed the use of

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