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Jan 02, 2020
TRIPOLI — Libya's UN-recognised government, based in Tripoli, has been under attack since April 2019 by forces of military strongman Khalifa ...
Jan 02, 2020
NAIROBI — At least three people were killed near Kenya's south-eastern border with Somalia on Thursday when gunmen ambushed the bus they wer ...
Jan 02, 2020
CAIRO — In an era of on-screen entertainment, a simple glove puppet named Aragoz still lures Egyptian audiences with comic sketches showing ...
Dec 31, 2019
BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON — Iraqi supporters of pro-Iran factions attacked the US embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, breaching its outer wall and chant ...
Dec 31, 2019
NAIROBI — In the past decade, Somali extremist group Al Shabaab has lost territory, suffered defections and faced mounting US air strikes, b ...
Dec 31, 2019
BEIRUT — Inside a Lebanese bank, a woman screams for her salary. ...
Dec 31, 2019
BEIRUT — Syria’s nearly nine-year-old conflict which has cost more than 370,000 lives recorded its lowest annual death toll in 2019, a war m ...
Dec 31, 2019
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s complex security infrastructure includes tens of thousands of fighters in units trained and armed by its powerful neighbour ...
Dec 31, 2019
OMDURMAN — A Sudanese court on Monday sentenced 27 intelligence agents to death for torturing and killing a protester early this year, an AF ...
Dec 31, 2019
MOGADISHU — The death toll from a massive car bomb in the Somali capital has risen to 81, a government spokesman said on Monday, as rescue w ...