The Congo Free State under King Leopold II saw severed hands, rubber quotas, and genocide, Belgian colonialism's darkest ...

More than 40 people were killed Sunday in an attack by Allied Democratic Forces rebels in northeastern DR Congo, ending a months-long period of regional calm, the UN mission and Congolese military ...

USCIRF Chair Vick Hartzler called the attack "particularly disturbing as it targeted a place of worship during an evening service." ...

Islamic State-backed rebels attacked a Catholic church in eastern Congo on Sunday, killing at least 38 people, according to ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nearly 40 people were killed Sunday in eastern Congo’s Ituri province when rebels stormed a Catholic ...

More than 30 Christian worshippers were killed during a prayer vigil in a church in the northeastern Democratic Republic of ...

Dozens of people were killed on Sunday in an attack on a church in eastern Congo by a rebel group linked to the Islamic State ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

British nurse found guilty of killing 7 newborn children A German doctor went on trial Monday accused of killing 15 patients with lethal injections and acting as "master of life and death" over ...

Several children were killed in an Israeli airstrike at a water distribution point in central Gaza Sunday, health officials said, one of several deadly incidents in the territory that come ...

As of Wednesday, at least 4,121 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Afghanistan: As of Monday, at least 1,266 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to ...