Conflict
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 08:15
More than a dozen anti-Bouteflika protesters have been arrested by the police ahead of a campaign rally in Tizi-Ouzou, in the Berber region of Kabylie east of the capital of the National Liberation Front (FLN).
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 08:07
According to the official, the compound used in the attacks was not listed among the chemicals that Syria committed to dispose of when it signed an agreement in September 2013 to give up its chemical weapons.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 08:01
The U.N.'s food aid agency warned on Tuesday that Syria was facing a drought that could put millions of people's lives at risk, compounding the impact of years of war.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 07:59
The government of North Darfur has announced that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) has recaptured the Bir Maza and Bir Deek areas from rebel groups, declaring that the latter had lost their last strongholds in the state.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 07:58
The motive for the priest's murder was unclear, but Syria's main opposition bloc and President Bashar al-Assad's regime traded blame for the killing.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 07:57
Ahead of Chinese President Xi’s visit to the European Union in Brussels, a significant naval exercise has taken place in the Gulf of Aden to demonstrate the growing cooperation between the EU and China on issues of international security and defence.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 07:53
The United Nations has been forced to cut the size of food parcels for those left hungry by Syria's civil war by a fifth because of a shortage of funds from donors, a senior official has said.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 07:51
The W.H.O. and Unicef said in a joint statement on Sunday that Iraq’s expedited polio response was part of a broader vaccination effort in the region, with the goal of reaching more than 20 million children this week.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 07:38
‘This year the active phase of military action in Syria will be ended. After that we will have to shift to what we have been doing all the time - fighting terrorists’
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 07:34
Brahim Benchekroune (aka Ibrahim Bin Shakaran, or Abu Ahmad al-Maghribi) was killed during a clash with Syrian troops on a hilltop in Latakia, jihadist websites announced.