The Second Congo War, known also as Africa’s World War, began on Aug. 4, 1998, with one of the most audacious military operations in modern history, Operation Kitona, described by a U.S ...

Conflict has periodically flared up in eastern Congo since the end of the last major war in 2003. While M23 is the most significant, eastern Congo is home to dozens of armed groups.

“Our children were born in war. We live in war,” Jean Bahati, his face beaded with sweat, said as he paused for breath. It was the fifth time that he and his wife had been forced to flee, he said.

Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo's largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a "mass panic" among its 2 million people and Congo's government said ...

President Donald Trump misidentified images of victims from the war between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwandan-backed M23 rebels during a meeting with South African President Cyril ...

BUKAVU, Congo -- She walks slowly in padded slippers inside a hospital ward. Bohoro Nyagakon is a woman with gentle eyes and a frail five-foot frame, with a friendly 5-year-old daughter playing ...

Congolese children watch the deployment of government and UN troops outside Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, as M23 rebels are reported to close in on the town. (AP ...

A Rwanda-backed armed group has seized large parts of eastern Congo, threatening a regional war and a deepening humanitarian crisis. By Elian Peltier Reporting from Goma, Democratic Republic of ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a mass panic among its 2 million people and ...

Congolese former president Joseph Kabila has arrived in the rebel-held eastern city of Goma for talks with locals, three people close to him told Reuters, a month after declaring he wanted to help ...