At least 16 people have been killed in heavy fighting in the Libyan city of Benghazi between forces allied with the official government and Islamic State fighters, a military commander said on Wednesday. Benghazi, caught up in fighting for more than a year, is just one front in Libya's...
(BBC)- The first charter flight of Syrian refugees will arrive in the UK next week, the Home Office's most senior civil servant has said. Permanent Secretary Mark Sedwill said the UK was "on track" to meet David Cameron's target of receiving 1,000 Syrian refugees by Christmas. The move is part...
Saudi Arabia is pushing the U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee to condemn Iranian and Russian intervention in Syria, a move that prompted complaints on Tuesday from the delegations of Iran and Syria. The non-binding draft resolution, prepared by Saudi Arabia and...
(The Atlantic)- In 1993, during the brutal civil war in Bosnia, the United Nations declared the Bosnian Muslim town of Srebrenica to be a “safe area” for civilians, protected by several hundred Dutch peacekeepers. Two years later, on July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb units overran the town....
