MEXICO CITY — In 1999, President Bill Clinton went to Guatemala and apologized. Just two weeks earlier, a United Nations truth commission found Guatemalan security forces responsible for more than 90 ... Read more
LONDON — The last time that Nawaz Sharif had close dealings with the Pakistani Army, soldiers handcuffed him and imprisoned him in an ancient fort overlooking the Indus River, physically dragging him from ... Read more
Four officials have been arrested in connection with a foiled attempt to overthrow the government of Chad, the country’s state prosecutor announced Thursday. The government has released few details ... Read more
JOHANNESBURG — However the chaotic situation in the Central African Republic plays out, it will do so without the South African troops who have been deployed there since 2007. After the troops suffered ... Read more
African heads of state on Wednesday refused to recognize rebel leader Michel Djotodia’s self-appointment as president of Central African Republic, calling instead for the creation of a new ... Read more
The leader of the coup in the Central African Republic, Michel Djotodia, solidified his hold on the government on Monday after announcing that he would serve as both president and defense minister and ... Read more
PARIS – A small band of radical Islamist fighters battled French and Malian soldiers for hours in a firefight in Timbuktu on Sunday after infiltrating the Malian city overnight, Malian officials and ... Read more
A court in Kyrgyzstan on Friday found three nationalist opposition lawmakers guilty of attempting to violently overthrow the government and sentenced them to prison terms of 12 to 18 months. The three ... Read more
Rebel forces and international peacekeepers mopped up pockets of resistance on Wednesday in the Central African Republic after a weekend coup, but life in Bangui, the capital, was mostly returning to ... Read more
DAKAR, Senegal — The leader of the rebel group that seized power in the Central African Republic, Michel Djotodia, announced Monday that he was suspending his country’s Constitution, dissolving its ... Read more