Oman said it received 10 inmates from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay Monday, as outgoing President Barack Obama looks to reduce the number of prisoners there before leaving office. Neither the sultanate's foreign ministry nor the US defence official who confirmed the transfer...

U.N. experts monitoring sanctions against Sudan say the 13-year conflict in the Darfur region is now limited to the Jebel Marra area following the government's successful counter-insurgency strategy against two rebel groups. The experts said in a report to the U.N. Security Council...

Bahrain's foreign ministry summoned Iraq's ambassador in Manama to protest against remarks by Iraqi officials denouncing the execution of men convicted of a 2014 bomb attack, state news agency BNA said Monday. The execution on Sunday of three men, whose attack killed three policemen, has...

Just as London appears to be coming round to the idea that it will need a temporary transitional agreement with Brussels to smooth its exit from the European Union, it may find the position of European leaders has hardened. For months the working assumption in Brussels has been that it would...