Goma serves as a humanitarian hub critical for many of the six million people displaced by the conflict in eastern Congo. The rebels said they will march all the way to Congo's capital Kinshasa ...

A bishop in Goma has told Reuters news agency that the city is a "powder keg". Bishop Willy Ngumbi added that explosives had hit a house where priests were staying and the maternity ward of a ...

The M23 rebels announced the capture of Goma in a statement minutes before a 48-hour deadline imposed by the group for the Congolese army to surrender their weapons expired.

The withdrawal from Goma, he said, would be similar to the withdrawal of UN forces from Rwanda in 1994 during the genocide there. “It would not be an act of courage but one of cowardice,” he said.

Later on Thursday, a rebel leader, Corneille Nangaa, gave Goma’s citizens a taste of their new reality under the powerful militia — which some experts say counts 6,000 troops in eastern Congo ...

Fighting across the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and "is still very much ongoing ... it's not over yet," senior U.N. official in Congo, Bruno Lemarquis, said on Monday ...

Residents of the besieged city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, say they are gripped by fear as gunshots continue to ring out around their homes, days after rebel forces ...

Goma natives Justin Kabumba and Moses Sawasawa brought their deeply personal expertise to bear when Rwandan-backed M23 rebels began their push toward the eastern Congo city of Goma. Sensing a larger ...