Going. There the rebels want russia and the Syrian Government to stop bombing passive in the air strikes have killed twenty civilians including women and children in the past twenty four hours the oppositions accusing the government and its allies of using banned weapons including cluster bombs and napalm on civilians. Also the kurds are boycotting the saatchi meeting and theyre the focus of a Turkish Military operation in Northern Syria and group views their fighting groups as terrorists at least fifty one civilians including seventeen children have been killed near half leaned. In the news eisel says it was bad an attack on a military academy in afghanistans capital kabul eleven soldiers were killed and sixteen others wounded in the gun battle near the marshall vehement National Defense university five of the attackers were also killed the same site was the target of a suicide bombing in october in which fifteen officers died now it comes two days after a suicide bombing also in kabu
Government has accused southern separatists of an attempted coup after they took over its headquarters in fierce clashes in the city of aden at least ten people have been killed in the main airport will shut down now the group wants control of yemens Southern Region which was an independent country until one thousand nine hundred ninety the civil war has already torn the country apart after who the rebels seized control of the capital sanaa in two thousand and fourteen president are these government was forced to move to aden in the south adding to that tension the United Arab Emirates is arming the separatist fighters despite being part of the Saudi Led Coalition thats helping president how the battle the who these are some a binge of id report its. The. Yemens Prime Minister says secessionists have staged a coup in the southern port city of aden. Thats where the government had been based for the last few years there are reports of several people being killed in fighting between progo
A diplomatic push to end the war hosting a new round of talks and so cheap the u. S. Is there but the main Syrian Opposition group says that it will boycott the negotiations for a challenge reports now from sochi. Where the news earlier on monday the another group of opposition figures was going to be staying away from sochi really exposes i think the short comings of this Congress Russia has tried to make this as inclusive as possible inviting people and groups from across the syrian cultural religious and political spectrum so the robot is here there are these there are sunnis and sheers allo whites and various different political platforms including the moscow platform the rest on a platform but there are a few notable exceptions now those are the s. N. C. The syrian that Negotiation Committee which has said that it will stay away from sochi believing that this is undermining the geneva process the kurdish groups such as the y. P. G. Then not here either they are considered persona
Conflict and famine in south sudan, ongoing violence against humanitarian aid workers there and the need for more International Support to find a political solution. Held by the center for strategic and International Studies. This is an hour. Deborah as we watch the strong, the last, the fee, the brave come in, i see lots of familiar faces in the audience. Come on in. Dont be shy. Theres seats up here. I was find. I have to convince my colleagues to sit in the front seats. Except but you can sit there. All right. So were going to get started here today. First of all, i want to note a couple of things. This event and future ones were going to be doing are under a new initiative here at csis on diversity and National Security. To bring different perspectives, new voices and representation that we flects all of the reflects all of the United States in the discussion of Foreign Affairs. Today we have with us foreign fellows one, two, three three fellows. One couldnt make it today. Three fe
People to leave their homes and tens of thousands have been killed as fighting continues across the country. Were heading to malakal, a town thats changed hands more than six times since fighting began in december 2013. Despite millions in International Aid and government coffers once flush with oil money almost no roads have been built in south sudan. Most commercial airlines stopped flying when the war started so were traveling with soldiers on United Nations flights. Theres a lot of armed guards across this airport. Its a un base in malakal. There was an attack here a few months ago. Several un workers were kidnapped. So now theres heavy security everywhere. Even the un now seems to operate in fear of the government it helped build. We were told Government Forces pushed the opposition a few miles down river just days before we arrived, but things were still tense. This was a town of a hundred and fiftythousand people. It now feels like a ghost town. Weve come to south sudan to find