Talal Afifi has worked for years to revive Sudanese cinema which has languished through decades of authoritarian rule. With the fall of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir, he sees new hope. Bashir's Islamist-backed rule of 30 years had seen cinemas shuttered and US sanctions prevent imports...

Iraq’s rival parties were negotiating the contours of a new government Monday, after the previous Cabinet was brought down by a two-month protest insisting on even more deep-rooted change. After just over a year in power, premier Adel Abdel-Mahdi formally resigned Sunday after a...

At least 208 people are believed to have been killed during a crackdown on protests in Iran last month that followed a sharp fuel price hike, Amnesty International said Monday. “The number of people believed to have been killed during demonstrations in Iran that broke out on Nov. 15...

Britain’s governing Conservative Party has ramped up its campaigning efforts on social media platform Facebook with a surge of ads highlighting policy areas to younger voters. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives have raised record campaign funds before the Dec. 12 election, but...