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The Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group is making major territorial gains in long-running civil war, forcing some rebel groups to pick up arms and unite.

Turkish jets carried out new raids on suspected Kurdish rebel targets across the border in northern Iraq

A Syrian journalist was killed Tuesday in a suburb of the capital Damascus, amid intense clashes and shelling between government troops and rebel fighters

A missile barrage slammed into a suburb of Damascus, killing at least 40 people and wounding many others in the latest government attack on the rebel-held area

Rebels in South Sudan said Thursday they have seized U.N. river barges they suspect are transporting weapons for government troops, and are holding 16 peacekeepers and others who were aboard them

Airstrikes from the Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels mistakenly struck a pro-government military encampment, killing at least 20 fighters and wounding another 20

Syrian troops backed by Russian airstrikes seized a village in central Syria on Saturday amid fierce clashes with rebels, part of a ground offensive launched earlier this week

Fighting resumed in parts of South Sudan between government troops and rebel forces, two days after the president declined to sign a peace deal

Turkish jets hit Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq in a new raid against the separatist group

The Saudi-led coalition launched new airstrikes in at least two Yemeni provinces Monday, piercing a humanitarian pause that started at midnight Sunda

The massive truck bomb that killed 15 people, including a Kenyan diplomat, and wrecked Somalia’s premier hotel has stunned the capital and raised fears Monday that the Islamic extremist al-Shabab rebels are escalating their violence

Shiite rebels and their opponents battled across several provinces Monday after the start of a five-day humanitarian pause in the Saudi-led air campaign

An international human rights group says South Sudanese troops committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity

A Yemeni government spokesman says that government troops are consolidating control of the southern port city of Aden

At least 129 children were killed, with boys castrated and girls raped, during a government offensive against rebels last month in South Sudan