Agence France-Presse
Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 10:54
A group of Islamists jailed in Mauritania for terrorist activity linked to al-Qaeda announced a hunger strike on Sunday, demanding an end to “arbitrary measures” including being denied parole and having to pay to be released.
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 08:33
Tunisian premier-designate Mehdi Jomaa, chosen to form a transitional government, promised Friday to do his utmost to ensure transparent elections and bring the country out of crisis, TAP news agency reported.
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 08:32
France on Friday said indiscriminate airstrikes by Syrian government forces on the city of Aleppo amounted to war crimes and called for a halt to such attacks.
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 08:29
Nine people have been killed in sectarian fighting in northern Yemen between Shiite Huthi rebels and Sunni Islamists backed by local tribes, a tribal source said Friday.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 07:36
Egyptian police raided the offices of a NGO affiliated with a leftist former presidential candidate and arrested three employees, the group's director said Thursday.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 09:14
Fighters in Somalia shot dead three Syrian doctors and their three Somali colleagues Wednesday as they travelled to a hospital outside the capital Mogadishu, an AFP reporter said.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 08:38
Libya has blocked a UN plan to send more than 200 soldiers to the troubled country to guard UN staff, diplomats and officials said Monday.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 08:36
The bluntly-worded warning was the latest in a series of public statements by senior Saudi figures expressing displeasure with US and Western diplomatic initiatives towards Syria and Iran.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 08:35
"No war weapons have been exported to Syria in 2013," Ismet Yilmaz said in parliament, according to media reports.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 08:22
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt among Shiite pilgrims walking northeast of the Iraqi capital, one of several attacks that killed a total of 11 people Wednesday, Agence France-Presse reported.