said on Friday it would "adopt a forward defensive posture" due to the fighting between Congo's army and M23. Global powers including the United States, Britain and France have called for an end ...

Civilians draw water from Lake Kivu after the town was taken by M23 rebels, in Goma, ...

Rwanda-backed rebels say they captured eastern Congo's largest city, Goma, as the United Nations described a "mass panic" ...

U.N. sources estimate there are several thousand Burundian troops in eastern Congo, where they are deployed in support of the Congolese army. On Sunday, Rwanda told the U.N. Security Council that ...

Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries surrender to UN peacekeepers M23 rebels cornered mercenaries and remnants of Congo army after capturing eastern city of Goma Mercenaries were hired to support ...

Prominent human rights group Amnesty International accused Congo’s army and a rebel group of bombing densely populated areas in attacks that “likely constitute war crimes.” Both the Congolese armed ...

Amnesty International has accused Congo’s army and a rebel group of bombing densely populated areas in attacks that “likely constitute war crimes.” KINSHASA, Congo -- Prominent human rights ...

Rwandan army spokesperson Ronald Rwivanga said that five civilians were killed and 25 were wounded on the outskirts of the border town of Gisenyi. The Rwanda-Congo border near Goma was closed on ...

Congo’s leader called on young people to massively enlist in the army to help fight Rwanda-backed rebels who were attempting to seize more territory in the country’s east ...

Congolese troops with support from Burundi's army appeared on Friday to be holding back a push south by Rwandan-backed rebels seeking to expand their grip on eastern Congo in a weeks-old advance that ...