Day: August 11, 2011

Hein Min Aung remembers the March day in 1999 when he was recruited as a child soldier into the Myanmar army.

Addressing Parliament on Thursday, British Prime Minster David Cameron says police faced “a new and unique challenge” this week as looting broke out at the same time in different places across the country.

The Libyan Embassy in Washington officially re-opened Thursday under the control of the Transitional National Council, a senior State Department official and the new Libyan ambassador told CNN.

Syrian troops rolled into the northwestern city of Saraqib early Thursday morning, just hours after evening prayers there called for an end to President Bashar al-Assad’s reign, an opposition group said.

The United Nations is desperately trying to convince donors to get generous with their pocketbooks in order to stave off further suffering in the famine-wracked Horn of Africa.

The U.S. Defense Department Thursday released the names of U.S. military personnel killed in Saturday’s downing of a helicopter in Afghanistan.

Five NATO service members were killed Thursday following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan, according to a NATO statement.