Russian mercenaries fight shadowy battle in gas-rich Mozambique
A deployment of Russian guns-for-hire, with links to the Kremlin, has sustained casualties in its fight against Islamist militants in Mozambique, multiple sources have told CNN.
rebellions and insurgencies
Extinction Rebellion has race problem, critics say
Last month angry commuters dragged two Extinction Rebellion protesters off the top of trains at a tube station in a working class, historically poor district of east London during morning rush hour. The demonstrators were trying to force the British government to take action on the climate crisis.
Extinction Rebellion activists sail 'sinking house' down River Thames
Extinction Rebellion activists staged a surprising demonstration Sunday, floating a model of a sinking house down the River Thames in protest over rising sea levels.
Congolese rebel leader given 30 years in jail for war crimes
A former Congolese rebel leader nicknamed
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead: 6 things you need to know
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive and highly secretive leader of ISIS, died during a raid conducted by the US military in northwest Syria on Saturday night, President Donald Trump said.
How ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi became feared preacher of hate
A preacher of hate. The instigator and inspirer of some of the most hideous acts of violence ever put to video. An elusive fugitive, hunted by drones, only once seen in public. The perverter of Islam with a nauseatingly infectious ideology that had a greater lure to a disenfranchised minority than anything comparable since the 1970s.
London becomes first city to ban Extinction Rebellion protests
London has become the first city to prohibit the global environmental movement Extinction Rebellion from staging protests, in a move condemned by legal observers and campaigners as a massive
Extinction Rebellion activists arrested in London
At least 276 Extinction Rebellion protesters have been arrested in London as campaigners begin two weeks of demonstrations demanding that governments take action on the climate and ecological emergency.
Camps teach people how to protest climate crisis
A growing number of Europeans have decided that they've had enough of inaction in the face of the climate emergency, and they're in training to do something about it.
Rebels launch drone attack on Saudi airport, injuring 9
A second attack in two months on an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia has wounded nine people, according to a Saudi-led coalition statement.
Rival sides in Yemen's war to hold first direct talks in years
Officials from Yemen's internationally-recognized government are set to hold direct talks with Houthi rebels in Sweden on Thursday in the most significant step to end the country's conflict in more than two years.
