An armed group backed by Rwandan troops took control of the airport in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma on Tuesday, a ...

The Rwanda-backed armed group has captured a string of towns over the last few days, encircling the provincial capital Goma. Several Western ... groups from the DRC capital Kinshasa, and troops ...

The M23, the latest in a long line of Tutsi-led rebel movements backed by Rwanda, captured Goma in 2012 but withdrew days later after an agreement brokered by neighboring nations. Congo has more ...

The severing of ties between the DRC and Rwanda complicates negotiation efforts, leaving the fate of Goma and its inhabitants uncertain. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has offered to ...

Congolese rebels and allied Rwandan forces entered the key eastern city of Goma on Sunday and the airport is no longer in use, according to the DRC's top UN official. "M23 and Rwandan forces ...

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has called on Rwandan forces to withdraw from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and halt support for M23 fighters advancing on the key city of Goma ...

Taking over Goma would mean the rebels would be controlling the entire province of North Kivu, one of the DRC's richest and most critical regions, and one which shares a border with Rwanda. Defending ...

The United Nations Security Council Sunday night condemned strongly ongoing advances by the March 23 Movement M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic R ...