Rwanda-backed rebels were expanding their presence in eastern Congo after capturing Goma, the region’s major city, the U.N.

The United States urged the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to consider measures to halt an offensive by Rwandan ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday spoke separately with the presidents of the Democratic Republic ...

UN human rights office spokesman ... Tshisekedi's call on Thursday for a mass military mobilization. People protest in Kinshasa against the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels' advances into eastern ...

More than 2,000 United Nations staff members who fled to Rwanda are now awaiting flights ... with the killing of North Kivu Province's Military Governor Peter Cirimwami and the capture of new ...

Rwanda-backed rebels were quickly expanding ... the 16-nation bloc also pledged to work towards a ceasefire. At the United Nations, France circulated a draft Security Council resolution to all ...

Rwanda-Backed Rebels Move Deeper Into Eastern Congo as UN Reports Executions and Rapes ... The central African nation’s military has been weakened after it lost hundreds of personnel and foreign ...

Fighting Ongoing Across DRC's Goma, Rwanda Troops in City, Says UN By Michelle Nichols UNITED ... troops exchanged fire with the Rwandan military across the border, in the worst escalation of ...

He added that it is “possible” M23 fighters could press beyond eastern DRC because DRC’s “forces and military ... the UN and several other countries have accused Rwanda of supporting ...

(AP Photo/Brian Inganga) GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels were expanding ... Pacifique Masunzu, who commands a key military defense zone in South Kivu. Congolese military bases in Bukavu ...