Daesh (ISIS) said via its Amaq news agency that it killed or wounded more than 40 soldiers in the northeast Nigerian state of Borno in two separate attacks Tuesday. Locals and military sources told Reuters there were clashes between insurgents and soldiers in the state Monday and Tuesday....

Iran is ready for dialogue if Saudi Arabia is also ready, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Wednesday, according to the IRIB news agency. "If Saudi Arabia is ready for dialogue, we are always ready for dialogue with our neighbours," Zarif said. "We have never closed the door...

The African Union called Wednesday for a speedy trial for those responsible for the killing of school children at a protest in the Sudanese city of El-Obeid Monday. Mohamed Hassan Lebatt, the bloc's mediator in Sudan, also called for the ruling military council and opposition coalition to...

Pyongyang fired two ballistic missiles Wednesday, Seoul said, days after a similar launch that the nuclear-armed North described as a warning to the South over planned joint military drills with the United States. The two devices were fired from the Wonsan area on the east coast at dawn and...