The Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have attacked Congolese government forces in the South Kivu province, breaking a two-day lull ...

(Reuters) -Rwandan-backed M23 rebels entered eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's second-largest city Bukavu on Friday, a ...

(Reuters) -Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been ...

The latest fighting is part of a major escalation of a conflict over power, identity and resources dating back to the 1990s Rwandan genocide.

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

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 ...

Fourteen South African soldiers have already died in fighting. The army has now deployed an additional 700 to 800 troops to ...

The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

The U.N. children’s fund is accusing armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping scores of ...

Rebels in eastern Congo entered the provincial capital of Bukavu on Friday evening and will continue operations there on ...

Many of the millions of people trapped in eastern Congo’s escalating rebellion face a terrible choice: Retreat into Congo’s interior and seek the protection of an army in disarray, or cross into ...

The Rwandan-backed rebels' entry into Bukavu follows their capture of Goma, defying international calls for a ceasefire.