British Foreign Secretary David Miliband says it is in everyone's interest to see the U.N. Security Council resolution on Gaza implemented as soon as possible. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband (file photo) Using the words of Middle East envo...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 18 June 2008 A ceasefire in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip is due to begin at 6:00 a.m. local time Thursday. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. Israeli soldier gestures to direct a tank moving on top of mi...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 08 October 2007 Renegade general Laurent Nkunda says his rebel forces are abandoning a U.N.-mediated ceasefire with the Congolese government. Congo's defense minister says the government wants to use dialogue to solve the cris...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 25 September 2007 More fighting has been reported in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following Monday's clashes between the army and renegade forces who battled on three separate fronts despite a shaky ceasefire. Anal...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 07 September 2007 Many civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are hoping for a ceasefire between the army and renegade fighters, but the rival forces as well as U.N. officials are giving conflicting information abou...
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 30 August 2006 Government soldiers patrol on the Mavilaaru reservoir tank bank in Mavilaaru, close to Muttur, Sri Lanka, Monday, August 28, 2006 International ceasefire monitors have blamed the Sri Lankan military for the...
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 06 August 2006 France and the United States have presented the U.N. Security Council with a draft resolution aimed at ending the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. -------- Lebanese soldiers stand next to...
By Sonja Pace Jerusalem 25 July 2006 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, center, arrives at Rome's Ciampino military airport Tuesday, July 25, 2006 Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice arrived in Rome for an international conference on Lebanon o...
By Paula Wolfson White House 16 July 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she wants to see a sustainable ceasefire in the Middle East. But , the Bush administration says peace will not come, as long as Hezbollah remains an armed threat to I...
By Challiss McDonough Beirut 16 July 2006 Israeli air strikes in Lebanon killed at least 32 people on Saturday, and residents in the heavily targeted south were trying desperately to flee. The Lebanese prime minister declared his country a disaster...