Conflict

By Steven Erlanger, Melissa Eddy and Helene Cooper BRUSSELS — The United States and NATO, anxious about a major Russian troop build-up on Ukraine’s border, signalled strong support for the Kyiv government Tuesday (13). And in what was…
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By P. K. Balachandran COLOMBO - The Gotabaya Rajapaksa Presidency, which is in its second year, is facing multiple problems, domestic and external, economic as well as political. Divisions have arisen in the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana…
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By P .K. Balachandran COLOMBO - The Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) is a modern phenomenon owning its existence to man’s increasing developmental needs and the expansion of the human population due to improved health and living conditions.…
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By Rick Gladstone RIYADH - Saudi Arabia proposed what it described as a new peace offering Monday (22) to end the kingdom’s nearly six-year-old war on the insurgency in neighbouring Yemen, pledging to lift an air-and-sea blockade if the…
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By John Ismay KABUL — Defence Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III landed in Afghanistan’s capital Sunday (21) morning, becoming the first member of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet to set foot in the country that is home to America’s longest war.…
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ATAREB - Syrian regime artillery fire killed six civilians including a child when it hit a hospital in the last major rebel bastion of Idlib on Sunday (21), a war monitor said. The attack in the northwestern town of Atareb came despite a…
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BEIRUT - The UN children's agency called Sunday (28) for all minors held in displacement camps or jails in northeast Syria to be allowed home. UNICEF made its plea a day after three children died in a fire at the overcrowded camp of…
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By Ben Hubbard BEIRUT — A court in Germany convicted a former Syrian secret police officer Wednesday (24) of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity for his role in arresting and transporting protesters to an interrogation centre known…
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RIYADH - At least one loud explosion rattled Riyadh on Tuesday (26), AFP correspondents reported, three days after the kingdom intercepted a projectile over the Saudi capital. Authorities in Saudi Arabia, which has come under repeated…
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By Hachem Osseiran BEIRUT - Israeli air strikes on east Syria killed 57 regime forces and allied Iran-backed fighters, in the deadliest such strikes since the start of the conflict, a war monitoring group said Wednesday (13). The…
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