Brutal Civil War

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier review: Sam Wilson’s (Anthony Mackie) journey to becoming Captain America was a tad too predictable, while Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) barely had an arc. It also failed Zemo (Daniel Brühl) and the Flag Smashers. It was at its best in tiny moments, be it a brutal murder, or Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ cameo.

Alan Kurdi's corpse, photographed by a Turkish journalist in the morning's early light on September 2, 2015, looked at first like a sleeping toddler, the 3-year-old's cheek pressed against the sand in breaking water. It was an image that ripped through a crowded news cycle, articulating without words the horror of what was unfolding on the beaches ...

Rear Admiral Travis Sinniah was today appointed as the chief of Sri Lanka's naval forces, making him the first from the minority Tamil community to head the Navy since the brutal civil war erupted in the country 45 years ago.

President Barack Obama defended his refusal to use military force to end Syria's brutal civil war on Wednesday, as diplomatic efforts faltered and a humanitarian crisis of historic proportions unfolded in Aleppo.

President Barack Obama has admitted his inability to end Syria's brutal civil war still haunts him, but insisted his refusal to put his hand on the scales was the right choice.

The UN's children agency is condemning the killing of children amid Syria's ongoing civil war following brutal incidents in the country's north.

El Salvador's Supreme Court on Wednesday declared as unconstitutional a 1993 amnesty law that helped bring an end to the country's civil war but also prevented authorities from seeking justice for Human Rights violations committed during the brutal conflict.

Efforts to end Syria's brutal five-year civil war may hang by a thread, but Washington's top diplomat will once again throw himself into the fray.

The UN envoy for Syria on Monday declared the official start of peace negotiations in Switzerland aimed at charting a way out of the brutal and tangled civil war that has killed more than 260,000 people.

The future of the biggest push to date to end Syria's brutal civil war looked highly uncertain today with the main opposition group threatening to walk away before planned peace talks even begin in earnest.

Germany registered 1.1 million asylum seekers in 2015, the interior ministry said today, with Syrians fleeing a brutal civil war making up almost 40 percent of arrivals.

Senior international envoys gather in New York today to seek UN backing for an ambitious US and Russian plan to bring about a negotiated end to Syria's brutal civil war.

More than a quarter of a million people have been killed in Syria's brutal conflict since it began with anti-government protests over four years ago, a monitoring group said today.

A doomed US plan now on hold to train Syrian rebel fighters outside the country to fight the Islamic State was "nuts," former defense secretary Robert Gates said.

Girls gang raped by soldiers then burned alive, boys castrated, armies of child fighters: the litany of atrocities in South Sudan's civil war is growing, with the international community apparently powerless to stop the fighting.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier review: Sam Wilson’s (Anthony Mackie) journey to becoming Captain America was a tad too predictable, while Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) barely had an arc. It also failed Zemo (Daniel Brühl) and the Flag Smashers. It was at its best in tiny moments, be it a brutal murder, or Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ cameo.

Alan Kurdi's corpse, photographed by a Turkish journalist in the morning's early light on September 2, 2015, looked at first like a sleeping toddler, the 3-year-old's cheek pressed against the sand in breaking water. It was an image that ripped through a crowded news cycle, articulating without words the horror of what was unfolding on the beaches ...

Rear Admiral Travis Sinniah was today appointed as the chief of Sri Lanka's naval forces, making him the first from the minority Tamil community to head the Navy since the brutal civil war erupted in the country 45 years ago.

President Barack Obama defended his refusal to use military force to end Syria's brutal civil war on Wednesday, as diplomatic efforts faltered and a humanitarian crisis of historic proportions unfolded in Aleppo.

President Barack Obama has admitted his inability to end Syria's brutal civil war still haunts him, but insisted his refusal to put his hand on the scales was the right choice.

The UN's children agency is condemning the killing of children amid Syria's ongoing civil war following brutal incidents in the country's north.

El Salvador's Supreme Court on Wednesday declared as unconstitutional a 1993 amnesty law that helped bring an end to the country's civil war but also prevented authorities from seeking justice for Human Rights violations committed during the brutal conflict.

Efforts to end Syria's brutal five-year civil war may hang by a thread, but Washington's top diplomat will once again throw himself into the fray.

The UN envoy for Syria on Monday declared the official start of peace negotiations in Switzerland aimed at charting a way out of the brutal and tangled civil war that has killed more than 260,000 people.

The future of the biggest push to date to end Syria's brutal civil war looked highly uncertain today with the main opposition group threatening to walk away before planned peace talks even begin in earnest.

Germany registered 1.1 million asylum seekers in 2015, the interior ministry said today, with Syrians fleeing a brutal civil war making up almost 40 percent of arrivals.

Senior international envoys gather in New York today to seek UN backing for an ambitious US and Russian plan to bring about a negotiated end to Syria's brutal civil war.

More than a quarter of a million people have been killed in Syria's brutal conflict since it began with anti-government protests over four years ago, a monitoring group said today.

A doomed US plan now on hold to train Syrian rebel fighters outside the country to fight the Islamic State was "nuts," former defense secretary Robert Gates said.

Girls gang raped by soldiers then burned alive, boys castrated, armies of child fighters: the litany of atrocities in South Sudan's civil war is growing, with the international community apparently powerless to stop the fighting.