El-ARISH, Egypt — Egyptian officials say militants in the restive northern Sinai have shelled a home near a security checkpoint, killing an entire family of five and wounding a teenage neighbor. Medical and security officials…
(KHARTOUM) – South Sudan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Barnaba Marial Benjamin Thursday arrived Khartoum on a four-day visit. Benjamin who co-chairs with Sudanese counterpart a coordination mechanism on the implementation of bilateral agreements will discuss…
Tripoli, Lingering opposition to a UN-backed unity agreement in Libya was exposed on Wednesday when a new rival process was proposed by a member of the Tripoli-based parliament, only to be rejected as unrepresentative of…
Homs, At least 32 people were killed and 90 wounded in two bomb explosions in the Syrian city of Homs on Monday, monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The blasts, one from…
Damascus, Around 450 Syrian fighters and their families were evacuated from two besieged areas on Monday under the kind of operation that the United Nations hopes can be a stepping stone toward a wider peace…
Baghdad, The Iraqi city of Ramadi has been “liberated” from so-called Islamic State, the Iraqi military has declared. Spokesman Brig Gen Yahya Rasul said forces had achieved an “epic” victory and that the Iraqi flag…
Tunis — The terrorist organisation Daesh counts between 4,000 and 5,000 fighters in Libya where Tunisians hold command posts, responsible of information in the Interior Ministry Walid Louguini said on Friday. During a meeting in…
The Taliban’s portentous advance on Sangin, in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, and the hasty, improvised British and American response have aroused a broad range of emotions. Anger and sadness on the part of relatives of the…
By Manish Rai The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution endorsing an international road map for a Syrian peace process, a rare show of unity among major powers on a conflict that has claimed…
Damascus, The head and several leaders of one of Syria’s most powerful rebel groups, Jaysh al-Islam, have been killed in an air strike east of Damascus. Founder Zahroun Alloush, 44, was among those killed when…
