Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor will likely be imprisoned in the UK if international judges find him guilty of war crimes after a five year tria...

Security forces in the Syrian city of Hama dragged an old woman into the street, hit her and shot her dead with two of her children hours after a visi...

The Syrian government has not kept its promises on a crucial ceasefire deal and continues to station tanks and troops in residential areas, UN Secreta...

The wives of the British and German representatives to the United Nations have released a video calling on the wife of the Syrian president to help st...

UPDATE: The Syrian Network for Human Rights has claimed fifteen people were killed in Syria on Friday, among them three defected soldiers and a casual...

Since the formation of the World Bank in 1944, a gentlemen's agreement has been in place that gifts the presidency to an American citizen, just as a European traditionally takes the helm of the International Monetary Fund.

Here in Sudan's Nuba Mountains the war isn't nearly over. It's escalating as skirmishes between north and South Sudan become bigger battles. The war is widening and more people are dying - and one day we will ask whether we did enough to stop it.

As the world marks the International Day for Street Children today, children in street situations serve as a grim reminder of how one of the most marginalised and vulnerable groups in the world continues to be deprived of their basic rights; failed by governments, institutions and societies.

Western diplomats are appalled that the deadline for the withdrawal of Syrian government forces from towns has come and gone without any change in the situation on the ground.

International envoy Kofi Annan has insisted the Syrian government will meet the deadline for a ceasefire. Annan, acting as special envoy for the Un...

International envoy Kofi Annan said that the violence in Syria must end "with no preconditions" after President Assad's regime continued shelling resi...

David Cameron has warned North Korea that it would be "unacceptable" for it to defy calls to abandon rocket tests. Speaking on a visit to Japan, th...

Foreign Secretary William Hague today welcomed the United Nations' demand that President Bashar Assad pull back troops amid continuing violence with o...

"Never prophesy, especially about the future." That nicely captures the perils of predictions - so nicely, indeed, that the saying or a version of it has been credited to numerous people, from the movie mogul Sam Goldwyn to baseball's Yogi Berra.

Self-immolations and hunger strikes are very distressing forms of political protest but they have been successful in putting Tibet back into the mainstream media and at visibly showing the collective pain and suffering of the Tibetan people.

Syrian troops have reportedly crossed into Lebanon in armoured cars to battle armed opposition fighters with rocket-propelled grenades. The news a...

Should Western powers seek to intervene militarily in Syria to stop the bloodshed? Should they do so even if the UN fails to agree on a resolution? I think not.