Foreign ministers from the international coalition against the Islamic State group gather for talks in London on Thursday, with the threat posed by foreign fighters in focus following jihadist attacks in France. US Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Secretary Philip...

Sudan's army on Wednesday denied reports that the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) had captured a strategic area in South Kordofan state. "The Talodi area is still under the control of the Sudanese army," army spokesman Col. Al-Sawarmy Khaled Saad told...

Around 200 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants have been killed in a major operation by Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces early on Wednesday, an official said. "A wide-ranging military operation started in the east and west of the Mosul Dam...

A senior Houthi leader said Wednesday that he has been on contact with former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh since the Shiite group seized control of the capital Sanaa in September. "Saleh used to me advice," Ali al-Bukhaiti said on his Facebook page, shortly after the...