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

The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels recently captured a major city.

The special session of the Human Rights Council was called by the Democratic Republic of Congo with the support of dozens of ...

Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) risks spilling over into a regional war, it is feared, as Rwanda-backed rebels claim to have captured the key city of Goma. The leader of a rebel ...

The Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said Monday that the “Rwandan Army” is in the strategic Congolese ...

The idea of Rwanda invading the Democratic Republic of Congo looks, on paper, preposterous. However, as an alliance of rebel groups seized Goma, the ...

A conflict that has raged for decades reached a flashpoint this week when rebels backed by Rwanda marched on a key Congolese city in a bid to occupy territory and exploit minerals. Displaced ...

29 (UPI) --The U.S. State Department called for a cease-fire in the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo saying Washington ... Advertisement She warned Rwanda's actions had opened ...

An opposition leader, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, supported by Rwanda, was installed in power. He changed Zaire’s name to the Democratic Republic of Congo. 1998: Mr. Kabila turned on his allies ...

President Paul Kagame said Rwanda was ready for "confrontation" as he rejected criticism over his backing for M23 rebels who were pushing south on Thursday in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

A boy shelters inside a burned out armored vehicle of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), in Nzulo, North Kivu, on Tuesday ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — On Monday ... many of whom live in Uganda and Rwanda, to Congo. The DRC government, however, considers the M23 a "puppet" of Rwandan interests.