CONFLICT

Bashar al-Assad and Russia pushing forward to take back rebel-held areas of the city.

The secretary-general has offered to play the role of mediator between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

Sergei Lavrov has said that the US has broken its promise to separate the group from other rebels.

Some film-making bodies in India have also banned their members from hiring Pakistani actors.

Could the subcontinent's nuclear powers be heading into a water war?

India's military might dwarfs Pakistan, but the two are evenly matched on nuclear weapons.

Thaad is expected to be deployed at the golf course sometime in 2017, despite resistance from locals.

Call for a general strike as part of plan to 'massively reject' the legitimacy of Bongo's re-election.

Beijing views the 80-year-old Buddhist monk as a separatist.

UN investigators will work with the existing Yemen national commission inquiry into human rights abuses.

Moscow urged Washington to deliver on its pledge to separate moderate rebels from terrorists.

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O'Brien demands swift action 'to save the Syrian people from the scourge of war'.

Wahida Mohamed said Isis killed her two husbands, three brothers and her father.

Both countries claim Kashmir as their own, with each governing separate areas of the state.

Leopold Munyakazi was extradited after losing several appeals against his extradition.

Moscow also says that it does not see any other alternative to the initial US-Russia ceasefire in Syria.

US has said that it will be deploying THAAD 'as soon as possible' to target the North Korea nuclear threat.

Rights groups welcome US sanctions on Congolese security officials accused repressing freedoms of DRC people.

The footage has emerged as Unicef says 96 children have been killed and 223 have been injured since Friday.

At least 200 people allegedly killed by chemical weapons agents since start of January military offensive.

German media identify woman as freelance journalist Janina Findeisen, who was abducted in October 2015.

Allah Nazar Baloch said there will be no negotiations with Pakistan without national independence.

Britain plans to send Eurofighter Typhoon combat jets, Voyager tanker aircraft and C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft.

The Treasury Department cracks down on Major General Gabriel Amisi Kumba and former senior police official John Numbi.

Islamic State militants took control of Mosul in 2014, but Iraqi forces managed to recapture some areas parts of the city.

UN Secretary-General's comments come as two Aleppo hospitals were bombed on 28 September.

Wife of legendary double agent threatened to expose his identity unless allowed to visit her family in Spain.

Bemba received an 18-year jail term for atrocities committed by troops which included murder, rape and pillaging.

The National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (NAVUZ) is increasingly becoming the target of violence