AZAZ: After losing three sons and two grandsons, 70-year-old Abdelhalim Hajj Omar has no doubt about the fate he wants for President Bashar Assad. “I...
BAB AL-SALAMEH, Syria: Huddled inside thin plastic tents in a makeshift camp after fleeing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's bombs thousands of refugees...
HAWA, Syria: Syrian rebels have seized a military base in the country's north, capturing weapons they hope will repel air raids by President Bashar al-Assad's...
ALEPPO: In Syria's once-affluent merchant city of Aleppo, a 60-year-old man wrapped in several layers of clothes queues alongside his shivering grandchildren...
GAROWE, Puntland: Somalia's al Qaeda-linked militants are moving north into the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, long regarded as a relatively peaceful...
MOGADISHU: Islamist suicide bombers attacked the hotel where Somalia's president was giving a news conference on Wednesday, killing eight people and...
MOGADISHU: Somalia's lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Monday for political newcomer Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to be the country's next president, with...
MOGADISHU: Somalia's president dismissed a U.N. report that accused senior leaders of corruption and defended his record as he campaigned for re-election...
Slogans sprayed across walls in a dusty, working-class district of Khartoum are painted over but still convey their message: Sudan's young opposition...
KHARTOUM: Rebels killed a Sudanese state official and seven other people in the oil-producing border state of South Kordofan, the state news agency said on...
KHARTOUM: Sudan has signed oil exploration and production-sharing deals with foreign companies on nine blocks, a senior oil official said, sealing investments...
KHARTOUM: Sudanese police used teargas and batons on Friday to disperse hundreds of anti-austerity protesters chanting 'Freedom, freedom' and...
JUBA/KHARTOUM: South Sudan said Thursday it was ready to reopen negotiations “any time” on a range of disputes with its northern neighbor Sudan...
KHARTOUM: Sudanese army troops have pushed out rebels who had seized control of a town in the western Darfur region, a state-linked media website said on...
KHARTOUM: Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Sunday he would not allow conflict with South Sudan to overshadow "strategic relations"...
KHARTOUM: South Sudan accused Sudan on Friday of attacking its military positions in an oil region, imperilling the chances of a promised ceasefire between...
KHARTOUM: Sudan and South Sudan’s armies, who have been clashing along their disputed border for weeks, said Thursday the frontier was calm after both...
JUBA: South Sudan said Monday Sudanese war planes bombed an oil region in the newly independent state, a day after Khartoum declared a state of emergency in...
JUBA/BEIJING: South Sudan freed Sudanese prisoners of war Wednesday in a gesture it hoped would help defuse tensions between Khartoum and Juba whose armies...
JUBA/BEIJING: South Sudan accused Sudan on Tuesday of mounting bombing raids on the newly independent country's oil-producing border region and President...
HEGLIG REGION, Sudan: Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir vowed on Monday not to negotiate with South Sudan after it occupied the oil-producing Heglig region....
BAGHDAD: If Iraqis were hoping that the withdrawal of U.S. forces last year would finally mean the end of war, Al-Qaeda and its Sunni militant allies are...
BAGHDAD: An Iraqi businessman, trying to cash in on the billions of dollars pouring into the country from lucrative oil contracts, complains that his biggest...
FALLUJAH: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki fired two senior security officials in the western Anbar province after militants disguised as police killed at...
FALLUJAH: The death toll in an attack on Iraqi police forces on Monday in the western town of Haditha has risen to 27, police and medical sources said. A...