More than 700 people have been killed and 2,800 injured in just five days since fighting escalated in the east of the ...

Rwanda-backed rebels claimed on Monday they captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing ...

Congolese security forces on Tuesday tried to slow the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who say they have captured Goma ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

Several of camp for internally displaced people in Kivu Congo’s leader called for a massive military mobilization to help fight Rwanda-backed rebels who were attempting to seize more territory in the ...

“The situation is confusing, complex and horrific,” said Greg Ramm, Congo’s country director for Save The Children, an aid ...

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo - Clashes between the rebel group March 23 Movement (M23) and the Army of the ...

M23 rebels, backed by Congo’s neighbor Rwanda, were attacking. Goma was under siege. But bombs were falling to the north and west. People had nowhere to go but the city. They were caught in a trap.

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 ...

Home to around 2 million people, Goma is the provincial capital of North Kivu and the largest city in Congo’s east. Humanitarian and medical facilities have come under fire amid the fighting.

Congo accused Rwanda of sending troops into its territory, while Rwanda said fighting near the border threatened its own security. Rwanda's army said Congolese shelling had killed five people and ...