BANDAJUMA, Sierra Leone (UNHCR) - At an age when they should be playing basketball with the other kids, two teenaged boys have chosen to sit it out on the bench, staring blankly ahead with troubled ...

MONROVIA, Liberia -- In his dream, 14-year-old Moses Watson is running from the front lines in Liberia when a bullet hits him in the guts. "All my intestines come out," said Moses, his voice quiet as ...

(The Center Square) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers continue to arrest and deport war criminals. The latest is a female Liberian war lord and child soldier recruiter. After she ...

17-year-old Stephen Campbell watches his friends playing soccer, but cannot join in because of a gunshot wound in the leg, at his new home at the Don Bosco Youth Rehabilitation Center in Monrovia.

When a U.S. Army civil affairs team conducted an engagement with Ghanaian Armed Forces (GAF) partners, June 8, that meeting’s purpose ...

Troops looted shops Thursday as rebels tightened their stranglehold on the Liberian capital. Soldiers shot their way into shops, warehouses and restaurants and emptied the shelves after armed forces ...

MONROVIA, Liberia -- A contingent of about 250 Senegalese soldiers arrived in Liberia on Saturday, increasing the size of the West African peacekeeping force to more than 2,000. West African leaders ...

MOORHEAD – National Guard soldiers stationed with the battalion here will not be deployed to Liberia for a humanitarian relief mission in spring, a training officer said. Lt. Zachary Loo of the ...