Two Italians kidnapped last July in Libya returned to Italy Sunday to a mute homecoming, amid questions over why two others snatched with them were killed. Gino Pollicardo, 55, and Filippo Calcagno, 65, were met by relieved relatives at Rome's Ciampino airport in the early hours and...

Veteran Sudan Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, one of the fiercest critics of President Omar al-Bashir's government, died of a heart attack on Saturday aged 84, officials said. "The Islamist intellectual Hassan al-Turabi has died," the state broadcaster reported. It interrupted its...

France will deliver arms, that were initially manufactured for the Lebanese army under a now suspended $3 billion Saudi grant, to Riyadh instead, a media report said Saturday. (The Daily Star)

Gunmen attacked an old people's home in the Yemeni port of Aden on Friday, killing at least 15 people, including four Christian nuns from India, local officials and medical sources said. The four attackers told a guard they were on a visit to their mother, then stormed into the...