Thailand and Cambodia agree to ceasefire talks after Trump steps in, but border clashes persistAmidst deadly border clashes, Thailand and Cambodia have signaled willingness to negotiate, spurred by U.S. President Trump's mediation. Th...
27 Jul, 2025, 10.37 AM IST
Thailand-Cambodia conflict: Artillery, airstrikes and landmines leave 14 dead, over 100,000 displaced as UN steps in; What we knowThailand-Cambodia conflict: The Thailand-Cambodia border conflict has exploded into its deadliest phase in more than a decade, killing at l...
25 Jul, 2025, 12.48 PM IST
JNIM: How an al-Qaeda ally became Africa’s most dangerous jihadist group and why the US should worryJama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin is a dangerous group. It is causing instability in West Africa. The group formed in 2017. It has grown...
07 Jul, 2025, 10.52 AM IST
World's most dangerous countries in 2024In 2024, severe conflicts and instability continue to plague several regions, marking Yemen, Sudan, South Sudan, Afghanistan, and Ukraine a...
26 Aug, 2024, 11.11 AM IST
Mali military camp is attacked a day after 49 civilians and 15 soldiers were killed in assaultsA military camp in Mali's north was attacked following two separate assaults by al-Qaeda-linked insurgents that killed 49 civilians and 15 ...
08 Sep, 2023, 04.46 PM IST
Wagner mercenaries buttress Russia's battered armyKiev's forces have scored spectacular advances in the northeast around Kharkiv and in the south towards Kherson in recent weeks. But Ukrain...
20 Oct, 2022, 04.53 PM IST
World worse now due to COVID, climate, conflict: U.N. secretary-general, Antonio GuterresGuterres said the U.N. Security Council, which does have the power to uphold international peace and security including by imposing sanctio...
21 Jan, 2022, 01.31 PM IST
Islamic State group menace rebounds in AfghanistanMore than 100 Afghan civilians and 13 US servicemen were killed in the August 26 attack on Kabul airport -- the deadliest violence against ...
06 Sep, 2021, 09.04 AM IST
The Sahel's intractable conflictFighting in the vast semi-arid region began in 2012, when Islamist militants joined a local insurgency in northern Mali, capturing swathes ...
11 Jun, 2021, 04.44 PM IST
With military victory elusive, West African nations quietly back talks with IslamistsFor a decade, West African armies and their international allies have fought against militant groups active in the Sahel region, some linke...
11 Jun, 2021, 03.20 PM IST
Mediators to meet detained Malian leaders as pressure on army buildsThe detention on Monday of President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane, tasked with steering the return to civilian rule after a cou...
26 May, 2021, 09.57 AM IST
'30 dead' in attack in eastern Burkina FasoIt comes just a week after three Europeans -- two Spanish journalists and an Irish wildlife activist -- were executed in an ambush against ...
04 May, 2021, 01.31 PM IST
Explained: The potential risks of political crisis in ChadThese latest rebels are from a group known as the Front for Change and Concord in Chad, which has been threatening to advance on the capita...
27 Apr, 2021, 02.23 PM IST
Explained: Chad's strategic interest to France, Western alliesChad's longtime ruler President Idriss Deby's death, which Paris described as the loss of a courageous friend who had sought peace and stab...
21 Apr, 2021, 02.45 PM IST
Fighting menace of terrorism requires robust support from UNSC, international community: IndiaSpeaking at the UN Security Council meeting on UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), India's Deputy Perma...
13 Jan, 2021, 10.54 PM IST
French forces kill leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic MaghrebDroukdel was killed on Thursday near the Algerian border, where the group has bases from which it has carried out attacks and abductions of...
06 Jun, 2020, 10.51 AM IST
The world’s 12 most infamous terrorists and the ends they metThese dreaded terrorists shook the world with their crimes. Here are 12 such terrorists and how they faced their end.
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