Maiduguri, Nigeria---Boko Haram Islamists have recaptured the strategic town of Marte in northeastern Nigeria's restive Borno state, a regional official said early on...
Maiduguri, Nigeria---Boko Haram Islamists have recaptured the strategic town of Marte in northeastern Nigeria's restive Borno state, a regional official said early on...
Juba - Rebels in South Sudan have launched a large-scale attack on the strategic northern oil hub and state capital of Malakal, an...
Istanbul---Turkish police have detained eight serving members of the army in the latest wave of arrests in a hugely controversial case over the...
Beirut - At least 48 civilians, including nine children, were killed on Saturday in regime air raids on Syria's northwest province of Idlib,...
Baghdad---Islamic State fighters closed in on the last government-held positions in the Iraqi city of Ramadi Saturday after Baghdad vowed an air and...
Kabul - The Afghan Taliban justified targeting foreigners after a brazen hours-long siege on a Kabul guesthouse that killed 14 people, saying people...
Bob Rugurika Bujumbura, Burundi---The head of the prominent Burundian independent radio station RPA has fled the central African country amid a crackdown by...
Langsa, Indonesia---Malaysia's prime minister said on Saturday he would seek help from Myanmar to address the unfolding "humanitarian catastrophe" involving a wave of...
Aden---Fighting in south Yemen killed at least 12 civilians on Saturday, the penultimate day of a fragile humanitarian ceasefire between Saudi-led forces and...
Beirut - Islamic State jihadists advanced Saturday on Syria's ancient Palmyra after executing dozens of civilians on the city's outskirts, as Iraq dispatched...
Cairo - Mohamed Morsi, who was sentenced to death on Saturday, was Egypt's first democratically elected president until the army overthrew him after...
Juba---Rebels in South Sudan have launched a large-scale attack on the strategic northern oil hub and state capital of Malakal, an official and...
Bujumbura, Burundi - Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza was in a confident, defiant mood as his motorcade rolled back into the capital Bujumbura following...
Kuala Lumpur---Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday his government was seeking a "positive response" from Myanmar to help solve the migrant...
Beijing---Beijing's determination to defend its sovereignty is "unshakeable", Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the top US diplomat John Kerry on Saturday as tensions...
Beirut---Islamic State extremists made key gains Friday, seizing a government compound in the strategic Iraqi city of Ramadi hours after allegedly massacring dozens...
Tripoli---Shelling of residential areas of Libya's second city Benghazi killed at least eight children this week, the United Nations said, warning that such...
Manila - The owners of a Philippine factory where 72 people died in a fire could face time in prison, a government task...
