An Israeli-American businessman, a former State Department official and a decorated Green Beret pitched up in the Democratic ...

The Congo Free State later became Belgian Congo; upon gaining flag independence, it was named Congo Léopoldville, then Congo Kinshasa, then Zaire, and now, thanks to Laurent Kabila, the ...

Rebels affiliated with the Islamic State group killed 66 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said Saturday. Fighters with the Allied Democratic ...

The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and beatified by the Vatican have been ...

Given a free hand, he proceeded to rule the area as his private property, entirely separate from the nation of Belgium. Renaming his domain the "Congo Free State," he pillaged its valuable rubber, ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it 'an important moment after 30 years of war.' In the Central African nation of Congo, conflict with more than 100 armed groups, the most potent backed by ...

At least 10 people were killed in eastern Congo by extremist rebels linked to the Islamic State group, a local official said Wednesday. The rebels with the Allied Democratic Forces, an IS ...