The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said Houthi rebels have attacked a Saudi oil tanker, causing "minor damage".

Around 1,100 Syrian rebels and their family members have left a stronghold in the Damascus suburbs in the past 24 hours, according to the Russian military.

Syrian rebels have shot down a warplane in the country's north-west where government forces and their allies are advancing under the cover of intense airstrikes, opposition activists said.

This time last year Cork were staring at a toothless exit from the hurling championship.

Syrian rebel representatives and officials from Kazakhstan's government have offered conflicting information as to whether Syria's armed opposition groups would end their boycott and attend talks with the Syrian government in the Kazakh capital, Astana.

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Almost 7,000 members of Colombia's largest rebel group have arrived in special transition zones to begin disarming, completing a key step in a revised peace deal that seeks to end more than five decades of armed conflict.

Syrian government forces are pressing an offensive in a valley north west of Damascus as 10 rebel groups suspended talks on planned peace negotiations because of what they described as government violations of a ceasefire deal.

Overnight talks have reinforced a ceasefire deal to allow Syrian rebels and tens of thousands of civilians to leave the war-torn eastern city of Aleppo, the media arm of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group has said.

Fierce fighting has broken out around the Syrian city of Aleppo after rebels launched a large-scale offensive to break the government's siege of opposition-held areas.

Syrian government forces have taken control of the last major town held by rebels in western Latakia province

Militant groups in Syria are mourning the death of a powerful rebel commander killed in an airstrike near Damascus – a high-profile assassination that may shift the balance of power in rebel-held suburbs of Damascus.

UN-brokered peace talks between Yemen’s internationally recognised government and the country’s Shia rebels have started in Switzerland. 

Rebels entrenched in an eastern suburb of Damascus have fired volleys of mortar shells into the Syrian capital, killing three people, including a child, and wounding 33, Syria’s state-run news agency and residents said.

It is being reported that Syrian rebels had locked people in cages to use them as human shields against government air raids.

All 20 United Nations peacekeepers held by rebels in South Sudan have been released, the UN has confirmed.

Rebels in South Sudan have seized UN river barges they suspect were transporting weapons for government troops, and are holding 16 peacekeepers.

Heavy fighting has broken out in central Syria as government troops backed by Russian air strikes battle insurgents, activists said.

Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and the top Farc rebel commander have pledged to end the 50-year war within the next six months, sealing their pact with a handshake likely to stand as a lasting image in the South American nation.

Ceasefire under threat as Independence Day imminent

Colombia’s largest rebel group is ending a unilateral ceasefire in response to a military raid on a guerrilla camp that killed 26 of its fighters.

Yemen’s Shiite rebels and their allies in the country’s armed forces have said they would accept a five-day humanitarian ceasefire to allow aid to reach civilians after more than a month of daily Saudi-led airstrikes.

Pakistan’s parliament has decided not to join the Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite rebels in Yemen, with lawmakers adopting a resolution calling on the warring parties to resolve the conflict through peaceful dialogue.

South Sudanese government troops have killed up to 130 rebels in the latest fighting following the collapse of peace talks between president Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar, the military said.