The BBC accompanies the civil defence group as they respond to violence in Syria's coastal region. Many belong to former President Bashar al-Assad's sect, which was targeted in mass killings.

The second Sudanese civil war lasted from 1983 to 2005 and ended with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). In 2011, nearly 99 percent of South Sudanese voted in favor of the independence ...

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Downing Street has rejected characterisations of its plans to reform the Civil Service as “taking a chainsaw to the system”. Sir Keir Starmer has promised a series of sweeping reforms to the machinery ...

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Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...

Izady. AFP/Getty Images The latest developments have once again demonstrated the shifting alliances of Syria's multisided civil war that has been subject to competing geopolitical interests among ...

The pair signed a peace deal to bring a five-year civil war to an end in 2018. Kiir’s government detained two ministers and several senior military officials allied with Machar last week.

2016 was among the most stirring images of the brutal campaign on drugs. PHOTO BY VINCENT GO On September 15, 2021, the pre-trial chamber of the ICC authorized a formal investigation into Duterte’s ...

Under-performing civil servants could be incentivised to leave their jobs and senior officials will have their pay linked to performance under the new proposals. Mr McFadden has also declined to put a ...

with more centrist elements attributing this to unpopular stances taken by progressives on culture war issues. A New York Times/Ipsos poll published in January found that 79 percent of Americans ...

The presentation has received mixed reviews with civil society representatives who attended the sessions in Geneva noting that the report ignored some poignant women’s issues in the country. “We ...