President Emmanuel Macron arrived Friday in conflict-torn Mali to visit French troops fighting jihadists on his first official trip outside Europe since taking power. At the end of his first week in...
Bangladeshi police arrested 27 young men early Friday in a rare crackdown on homosexuality in the conservative Muslim-majority country, where gay sex is a crime. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), an...
President Emmanuel Macron on Friday visits conflict-torn Mali, where French troops have been fighting jihadists for four years, in his first official visit outside Europe after taking power. He will...
A rapid intervention force of Senegalese troops will soon be deployed in central Mali, which has seen an increase in jihadist attacks and communal violence since 2015, the new UN peacekeeping chief...
Robert Mueller, named Wednesday to take over the US probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, has a reputation as a tough lawman who once even stood up to a president. Mueller, a Vietnam war...
An unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by Islamists, local officials told AFP on Wednesday, the first such incident since jihadist groups overran the region five years...
An unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by Islamists, the first such known occurrence since 2012, local officials told AFP on Wednesday. "The Islamists dug two holes...
Four Malian Red Cross employees have been kidnapped in the country's restive centre, the organisation said Monday, while a local official said negotiations were underway for their release. The Red...
Syria's regime is close to cementing its control over the entire capital under local deals with rebels after a six-year war that has ravaged suburbs of Damascus and caused population displacements....
Tunisia plans to seek UNESCO World Heritage status for the island of Djerba, site of Africa's oldest synagogue and an annual Jewish pilgrimage, its culture minister said on Sunday. Speaking on the...
North Korea on Friday accused the United States of using threats and intimidation to force countries at the United Nations to implement sanctions, describing the drive as "hysteric madness." The...
An annual Jewish pilgrimage to Africa's oldest synagogue on Tunisia's Djerba island began on Friday under tight security but in a festive mood. An AFP journalist saw dozens of pilgrims from the North...
Somalia's president has called on the international community to lift an arms embargo on his country as government soldiers battle to regain territory from the armed group al-Shabab. Speaking on...
Rifts are growing within the ranks both of Yemen's government and the rebel alliance, further dimming the prospects of an end to the country's two-year-old war. On the government side, a push for...
The completion date for the world's tallest tower has been pushed back to 2019, a Saudi Arabian billionaire said Thursday, almost six years after launching the record-breaking project. Jeddah Tower...
A video of an imam appearing to call for the murder of Jews in a sermon during Friday prayers at a Copenhagen mosque has caused outrage in Denmark. Mundhir Abdallah was reported to police after being...
Former Yemeni officials on Thursday launched an autonomous body to manage the war-wracked country's formerly independent south, in an open challenge to the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour...
Bangladeshi police have carried out a string of raids on suspected militants in recent weeks Police in Bangladesh say five suspected Islamist militants have been killed during an anti-terror...
Bangladesh police on Thursday raided a suspected Islamist hideout in an operation that left five relatives and a fire officer dead, officials said. Police shot dead the five people, all from the same...
The United States is offering a $10 million reward for information to identify or locate the head of Al-Qaeda's former Syria affiliate the Fateh al-Sham Front. The State Department's Rewards for...
