An air strike killed eight women and a child at a funeral reception near the Yemeni capital, witnesses said Thursday, adding to the conflict's mounting civilian death toll. At least 10 other women...
A suicide attack Thursday at Pakistan's Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in the southern city of Shewan in Sindh province killed at least 30 people and injured about 100 others, Sikander Mandhero, the...
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed's victory in Somalia's presidential election last week brought joyous crowds into the streets of Mogadishu, a testament to the former prime minister's enduring popularity....
The Chairman of the newly inducted Hajj Board, Sheik I. C. Quaye, has pledged to take the necessary steps to prevent any hitches in the organisation of this year's Hajj. He said unlike past years...
The Executive Secretary of the National Labour Commission (NLC), Lawyer Charles Adongo Bawa Duah, has for the first time broken his silence over the dismissal of two staff members of the NLC which...
The UN Security Council on Wednesday demanded armed groups in the Central African Republic immediately halt fighting and join peace talks after UN airstrikes targeted rebel fighters. UN attack...
President Adama Barrow has appointed a Gambian lawyer and former UN prosecutor as chief justice of the country's supreme court, ending a series of controversial foreign appointments to the position...
At least 18 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a predominantly Shia suburb of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, security sources say. A suicide bomber detonated a pick-up truck in Sadr City,...
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday rejected the possibility of reconciliation with a "minority" that is opposed to the regime. The idea of reconciliation emerged in newspapers...
A former senior official at Nigeria's intelligence agency, the State Security Service, has been recalling his ordeal after being abducted in central Kogi state by those whom he identified as being of...
Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday urged all warring parties in Yemen to allow aid deliveries, saying it had treated more than 55,000 people wounded during a Saudi-led intervention in the country....
The United Arab Emirates' ambassador to Afghanistan has died of wounds sustained in a January 10 bombing in Kandahar that also killed five other UAE officials, state media said Thursday. Ambassador...
Juma Mohammed Abdullah al-Kaabi, centre, has died of wounds sustained in the Kandahar attack The ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Afghanistan died on Wednesday of wounds sustained in a bomb...
Living conditions in west Mosul, where jihadists are hunkering down among 750,000 Iraqi civilians, are deteriorating fast and a source of great concern, the UN's top aid official said Wednesday. "We...
Five people were killed Wednesday when two suicide bombers attacked a government compound in Pakistan's restive tribal region, officials said, with the Taliban claiming the assault as the latest in a...
Ghana’s participation in this year’s pilgrimage to the Holy land of Mecca in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has started on a bumpy note with both vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and the National...
Residents of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, are voting for a new governor, in an election overshadowed by the incumbent's blasphemy trial. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as "Ahok", is the first...
Jakarta goes to the polls Wednesday with the city's Christian governor fighting to keep his job in a high-stakes election seen as a test of religious tolerance in Muslim-majority Indonesia. Basuki...
Valentine's Day returned Tuesday to the eastern sector of the Iraqi city of Mosul from where the Islamic State group was expelled last month, at least for a group of enthusiastic schoolchildren. "My...
Thousands of Iraqis, mostly supporters of prominent cleric Moqtada Sadr, gathered in Baghdad Tuesday to pay their respects to seven people killed last week during a protest for electoral reform....
