AFP correspondent
Israel Removes Metal Detectors From Jerusalem Holy Site
Israel removed metal detectors from a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site before dawn on Tuesday and said they would...
Jordanian Killed and Israeli Wounded At Amman Embassy ‘incident’
A Jordanian was killed on Sunday and an Israeli seriously wounded at the Jewish state's embassy in Amman, a security...
Jihadists Battle Rebels For Control of Key Syria Province
A former Al-Qaeda affiliate was locked in fierce clashes Friday with a leading rebel group for control of one of the...
Jihadist-Rebel Clashes Intensify In Syria’s Idlib
Clashes in Syria's Idlib province between a powerful jihadist group and a key rebel faction intensified overnight,...
Opposition Infighting In Syria’s Idlib Kills 14
Infighting between two of the most powerful factions in Syria's opposition-held Idlib province has killed at least 14...
Jordanian Soldier Gets Life For Killing 3 US Trainers
A Jordanian court on Monday sentenced a soldier to life imprisonment over the killing of three American military...
Zimbabwe Police Fire Tear Gas At Opposition Protesters
Zimbabwean riot police in the capital Harare fired tear gas and used water cannon on Wednesday to break an opposition...
Fifth Round of Kazakh Syria Talks Focuses On Safe Zones
Powerbrokers Russia, Iran and Turkey on Tuesday focused on shoring up a plan for safe zones in Syria at a fifth round...
Damascus Bomber Kills 18 After Car Chase
A suicide car bomber pursued by security forces blew himself up in eastern Damascus on Sunday, with a monitor reporting...
18 Killed As Car Bombers Strike Damascus
A suicide car bomber pursued by security forces blew himself up in eastern Damascus on Sunday, with a monitor reporting...
Thousands Rally Against Mali Referendum Ahead of Macron Visit
About 2,000 people rallied Saturday in conflict-torn Mali against a constitutional referendum over concerns the...
Children of Jihadists Flown Back To Sudan From Libya
Sudanese authorities on Tuesday brought home from Libya eight children, including a one-year-old, whose parents are...
US Envoy To Sudan Pushes For Aid In Ex-Rebel Bastion
The top US envoy in Sudan pushed Monday for more access to deliver humanitarian aid to Golo as he visited the former...
Sudan Boosts Border Patrols To Curb People Smuggling
It was Efrem Desta's yearning for freedom that made him flee his home country of Eritrea and enter Sudan illegally,...
US-Backed Syria Fighters Near Old City of IS-Held Raqa
US-backed Syrian fighters battling the Islamic State group pushed closer to the Old City in the jihadist stronghold of...
Protesters and Police Clash In Northern Morocco
Protesters clashed with security forces in Morocco's Al-Hoceima early on Saturday, an AFP correspondent reported, after...
Police Fire Tear Gas At Protesters In Restive Moroccan City
Police fired tear gas as clashes erupted Thursday between them and demonstrators in the Moroccan city of Al-Hoceima,...
Anti-IS Fighters Near Raqa Delight In American Weaponry
Chorche was like a kid in a candy store in front of crates packed with US weapons to help an Arab-Kurdish alliance take...
Fierce Clashes As US-Backed Force Battles IS In Syria’s Raqa
US-backed fighters fought fierce battles Thursday as they tried to push further into the Islamic State group's Syrian...