Baghdad--Sectarianism is receding in Iraqi politics and hope is growing that the country can remain united, said Nickolay Mladenov, who left Thursday after...
Baghdad--Sectarianism is receding in Iraqi politics and hope is growing that the country can remain united, said Nickolay Mladenov, who left Thursday after...
Algiers--Algeria's parliament passed a law on Thursday criminalising violence against women, in a move criticised by both Islamist lawmakers as well as Amnesty....
Cairo--Egypt's presidency said Thursday Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim, who spearheaded a deadly crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, had been replaced...
Thomas Sankara Ouagadougou--The government of Burkina Faso on Wednesday ordered the exhumation of the corpse of former president Thomas Sankara, slain in a...
Riyadh--The United States is keeping an eye on Iran's 'destabilising' acts even as the two nations try to reach a deal on Tehran's...
Riyadh--Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal called Thursday on the US-led coalition conducting air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria and...
Riyadh--Threats will never deter the United States, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday after an activist slashed the US ambassador to...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories--The Gaza Strip's sole power plant has halted production, the Hamas-run energy authority said Thursday, following a dispute with the...
Washington--A major winter storm slammed parts of the United States Thursday, as thousands of flights were canceled and government offices shut down in...
Monrovia--Liberia discharged its last confirmed Ebola patient on Thursday, as it reported for the first time in nine months it had gone a...
Riyadh--Saudi Arabia has beheaded dozens of convicts, including foreign drug traffickers, since the start of the year in what Amnesty International calls an...
Paris--Syria's exiled opposition chief told AFP he wants to pull together the country's divided dissidents to end the nearly five-year bloodbath, as he...
Dili, East Timor--An American tourist has returned to the United States after six months trapped in East Timor over the discovery of drugs...
Yangon--Security forces attacked and detained around eight Myanmar activists protesting in downtown Yangon, campaigners and witnesses said Thursday, in a surge in tension...
Baghdad--Military operations aimed at retaking the Iraqi city of Tikrit from the Islamic State jihadist group have caused around 28,000 people to flee...
Paris--Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is not a "credible" partner in the fight against the Islamic State extremist group, French President Francois Hollande said...
Moscow--Moscow said Thursday it would host talks between representatives of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime and opposition figures in April, three months after...
Geneva--In their battle against "terrorists", countries around the world must root out the injustices that fuel extremism and are used as recruiting tools,...
