Political Affairs

English: Mark Zuckerberg, Founder & CEO of Facebook, at the press conference about the e-G8 forum during the 37th G8 summit in Deauville, France. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and...

President Eduard Shevardnadze of Georgia photographed during his meeting with Secretary of Defense William Cohen at The Pentagon Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze (Georgian: ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე [ɛduard ʃɛvardnad͡zɛ] ; born 25 January 1928) is...

Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and continuing with the ensuing occupation of Iraq, as well as the activities of the various armed groups operating in the country) have come in many forms, and the...

Estimates of deaths in the Syrian civil war , per opposition activist groups, vary between 62,550 [1] and 74,470, [1] [2] the later figure combining several sources. On 13 February 2013, the United Nations put out an estimate of 70,000 that had died in...

Tamil rebels in a pickup truck in Killinochchi The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil: , Tamiḻīḻa viṭutalaip pulikaḷ ; commonly known as the LTTE or the Tamil Tigers) was a separatist militant organization that was based in northern Sri Lanka. Founded...

The Sri Lankan Civil War was a conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka. Beginning on 23 July 1983, there was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers), a separatist...

The Cambodian Civil War was a conflict that pitted the forces of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (known as the Khmer Rouge) and their allies the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the Viet Cong against the government forces of Cambodia...

Skulls of Khmer Rouge victims The Khmer Rouge (Khmer: ខ្មែរក្រហម Khmer Krahom ; English: Red Khmers) was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia. It was formed in 1968 as an offshoot of the Vietnam People's Army...

Pol Pot (born Saloth Sar (Khmer: ប៉ុល ពត); 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) [1] [2] was a Cambodian Communist revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge [3] from 1963 until his death in 1998. From 1963 to 1981, he served as the General Secretary of the Communist...

Hu Jintao (pinyin: Hú Jǐntāo, pronounced [xǔ tɕìntʰɑ́ʊ] ; born 21 December 1942) is a former leader of the fourth generation of leadership of the Communist Party of China. He was General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 2002 to 2012, Chairman...