U.S. airmen happy to have helped victims of Sudan crisis
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Lt. Col. Ben McMullen, standing left, and Master Sgt. Rob Sestan, standing right, of the 86th Air Mobility Squadron, supervise as airmen do push-ups while killing time Thursday morning at an air base in the ...
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The State Department has hired a major military contractor to help equip and provide logistical support to international peacekeepers in Somalia, giving the United States a significant role in the critical mission without assigning combat forces.
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President Bush on Monday told the Pentagon to make two U.S. transport planes available to aid African peacekeeping forces seeking to end a humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
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NAIROBI -- The State Department has hired a major military contractor to help equip and provide logistical support to international peacekeepers in Somalia, giving the United States a significant role in the critical mission without assigning combat forces.
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The United States on Tuesday provided assistance to Haiti where hundreds of people were killed and thousands more left homeless by Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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CAIRO -- An airstrike by the Sudanese Air Force on villagers in southern Darfur killed or wounded nearly 100 people in a serious violation of a fragile cease-fire in the conflict-torn region, the United Nations said yesterday.
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Thirty U.S. Air Force members from Europe arrived Thursday in Kigali, Rwanda, to prepare for a two-week airlift mission of Rwandan peacekeepers to the Darfur region of Sudan.
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A US Air Force transport plane landed at El-Fashir airport in northern Darfur bringing the first Nigerian contingent of a reinforced African Union truce-monitoring force to the troubled region, officials said.
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Three UN election workers who were freed yesterday nearly a month after being abducted in Afghanistan have spoken of their gratitude to the Afghan people for supporting them during their plight.
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An African Union helicopter rescued 45 aid workers, 30 from the Save the Children organization, amid renewed fighting in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region Monday.
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A plane carrying aid supplies for refugees from Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region takes off on Tuesday.
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The United States will commit 116 million dollars to the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) in an effort to help relieve the humanitarian crisis gripping the war-torn Darfur region, the State Department said.
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Nearly a dozen airlines let travelers donate frequent flyer miles to help injured troops fly home.
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More than 30 aid workers have been airlifted to safety from a town in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region after fighting broke out and their base was bombed, a British charity says.
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As we work to provide assistance in Sudan&#39;s remote Darfur region, we are confronted on a daily basis by the horrible toll of a conflict that has taken tens of thousands of lives and has displaced more than a million people.
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The Bush administration is pressing the United Nations to reward Sudan with a major package of international debt relief and reconstruction funds if the Islamic state signs a peace deal ending a brutal, 20-year civil war with the Christian-backed Sudan People's Liberation Army in southern Sudan by the end of the year.
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Ivory Coast has been authorized to  repair its fleet of crippled military aircraft in a  conciliatory gesture by U.N. and French forces after the army  pledged not to use its warplanes to resume hostilities.