Three campaigns drove the conflict: coalition efforts to defeat the self-proclaimed Islamic State, violence between the Syrian government and opposition forces, and military operations against ...

The number of ongoing conflicts is now at its highest since World War II. The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) provides an extensive overview of global terrorism trends and patterns over the past decade.

Currently there are 56 active conflicts in the world, the most since the end of World War II. Yet war comes at a staggering cost - $19.1 trillion annually, or 14% of global gross domestic product ...

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 ...

A war to end all wars' The First World War was the first truly global conflict – the battle raged not just in the trenches of the Western Front but in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

The fast-worsening trade war between the United States and China — the planet’s premier geopolitical powers, whose economies ...

By Michael D. Shear Reporting from London When it comes to confronting global conflicts, President Trump is a man in a hurry. Even before his inauguration, the president claimed credit for what he ...

TOKYO, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks plunged early Monday with the benchmark Nikkei index briefly losing nearly 3,000 points amid growing fears of a global trade conflict triggered by U.S. tariffs.