At least 47 people received treatment after a major fire at an army camp in Kosgama, just outside Colombo while one soldier was killed, officials said on Monday.
A fire erupted at an army camp outside the Sri Lankan capital on Sunday, resulting in multiple explosions at the camp and forcing evacuation of nearby villagers.
Children have always been the most vulnerable group in wars. When adults start a war, children have no choice but to experience, at minimum, the same horrors as their parents. As Wednesday marks International Children's Day, we tell three stories about children and war.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Tuesday announced a plan to build a refugee camp, the first in the French capital, to welcome hundreds of people who fled war and poverty in their native countries.
As 13-year-old Palestinian child Ibrahim al-Nemnem grew up between the narrow alleys of the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, a dear dream to be an engineer and improve the lives of its inhabitants grows up simultaneously.
"There is no life for me in Afghanistan. There is no life for children where there is war," Ahmet, a 15-year-old Afghan boy told Xinhua in a recent interview in a minors camp in the Greek island of Lesvos where the majority of the more than 1 million refugees and migrants have landed since 2015.
The first phase of a major police operation launched on Tuesday morning to clear Greece's largest makeshift refugee camp at Idomeni crossing on the Greece-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia border ended by sunset without problems, according to Greek officials.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition under the stewardship of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may delay the approval of the already signed Trans-Pacific Partnership accord owing to a number of related rifts with opposition parties, local media reported Wednesday.
Turkish soldiers killed 17 Islamic State (IS) militants in late Thursday while the IS group tried to leak into a military training camp in the Bashiqa region of Mosul province of Iraq, local Hurriyet Daily News reported on Friday.
A UN body fears that there will be more cases of typhoid in Syria's Yarmouk refugee camp after the number of confirmed cases nearly doubled in a single day this week, a UN spokesperson told journalists here Thursday.
The base camp on the north face of Mount Qomolangma in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region will reopen to climbers on Wednesday, according to local tourism authorities.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Monday reported " intensive armed conflict" inside a Palestinian refugee camp near the Syrian capital of Damascus, saying that the UN agency "has received credible reports of serious damage to civilian property consistent with the use of heavy weapons."
"Evil has not disappeared, it has taken on new colors,"declared French President Francois Hollande during a commemorative visit Sunday to the former concentration camp of Natzweiler-Struthof.
Kenya's directive last week giving the UN refugee agency three-month to repatriate all Somali refugees in the country's Dadaab refugee camp has caused anxiety with opinion divided over whether they should leave or not.
At least 20 members of a renegade Muslim rebel group were reportedly killed as government forces shelled and assaulted their training camp in southern Philippine province of Maguindanao, the military said Tuesday.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Monday he had ordered cabinet ministers not to attend hearings with legislators following a plan of legislators from the opposition camp to question the president's recent decision to hike the subsidized fuel prices.
Suicide car bomb rocks military camp in southeast Yemen, 6 killed
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