The United States urged the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to consider measures to halt an offensive by Rwandan ...

Congolese security forces on Tuesday tried to slow the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who say they have captured Goma ...

M23's last occupation of Goma was short-lived, and within a year they were a defeated force. This time, things are different.

After three years on the run from the Rwandan-backed M23 insurgency in eastern Congo, on Sunday, with the rebels fighting ...

Residents reported gunfire overnight in Goma, a city of 2 million people which the rebels claimed to have captured on Monday.

Residents of Goma reported gunfire and shelling after rebels overran Congolese troops. U.N. officials estimated that more ...

Protesters have attacked embassies in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Kinshasa over Rwanda-backed rebels fighting in Goma.

Thousands fled the city of Goma on Monday as fighting raged between Congolese forces and rebels backed by neighboring Rwanda, who claimed to have captured eastern Congo’s largest regional hub ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Rwanda-backed rebels claimed on Monday they captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains ...

Who are the rebels and what do they want? The M23 group is one of about 100 armed factions vying for a foothold in eastern Congo, where a decades-long conflict has raged. The group, made up ...

On Thursday, fighting raged between rebels from the Rwanda-backed M23 group and Congolese forces in the town of Saké, the last major army position before Goma, a provincial capital with more than ...