KAYA, Burkina Faso (AP) — A 20-year-old woman could no longer live in her village amid the rising violence caused by Islamic extremists. But she needed to return and retrieve the family's cows in hopes of selling them. If her husband went, jihadists would almost certainly kill him. She went...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was acquitted Saturday of inciting the horrific attack on the U.S. Capitol, concluding a historic impeachment trial that spared him the first-ever conviction of a U.S. president but exposed the fragility of America’s democratic traditions and left a divided nation...

The notecards poking from bouquets rushing out of a Chicago florist all carry similar messages: “looking forward to celebrating in person.” “The notes aren’t sad,” said Kate Prince, a co-owner of Flora Chicago on the city’s North Side. “They’re hopeful.” On this Valentine’s Day,...

UN Special Envoy for Libya spoken with actors in the war-torn country Friday and thanked them “for their active participation in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum.”  UN's Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said in a statement that in the past two days, Jan Kubis spoke with President...

Dozens of Tunisian youths on Friday blocked roads in the long-marginalized southern Tataouine region in anger over unkept government promises to provide work and investment. In November last year, the administration of Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi pledged to create hundreds of jobs and a...

Libya’s eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar has offered his backing for a peace process that seeks to end a decade of chaos, after meeting the head of a new transitional presidential council. The military commander met with Mohammed Younes Menfi, a former diplomat who also comes from eastern...

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani warned Saturday of a COVID-19 “fourth wave” as cases rise in certain areas of the Middle Eastern country hardest hit by the pandemic. “This is a warning for all of us,” Rouhani said in televised remarks. He said some cities in the southwestern province of...

Travelers arriving in Oman will be allowed to book any hotel for their seven-day compulsory quarantine, local daily Times of Oman reported on Saturday.   “Following the decision of the Supreme Committee to impose compulsory institutional quarantine for all arrivals to Oman at...

Opposition to Myanmar's new military regime intensified on Saturday as spontaneous neighbourhood watch groups mobilised to thwart arrests of anti-coup activists and the UN demanded the release of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The army takeover that brought a decade-old democracy to an end...

Saudi Arabia said it foiled a Huthi drone attack on a southern airport Saturday just days before the new US administration is to stop designating the Yemeni rebels as a "terror" group. Saudi air defences "intercepted and destroyed a drone rigged with explosives which had been launched by...

Lebanese security forces fired volleys of tear gas at protesters trying to remove barbed wire outside the military court in Beirut. Dozens of Lebanese protesters took to the streets in Beirut on Friday, demanding the release of activists detained following riots in northern Lebanon late...

Lebanon is set to receive 100 army vehicles free of charge from Britain to bolster the country's defence against Daesh. The Land Rovers will be supplied to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Land Border Regiments which patrol the north and north-east border with Syria. "[They will] further...

Everyone wishes to see an end to the Palestinian division and to the political rift which have been ongoing for a decade and a half. But the end of this division cannot be achieved through agreements that neglect the basis of the crisis and ignore the main cause of the conflict, which is the...

More than 2 million Yemeni children under the age of 5 are expected to endure acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies said Friday, urging stakeholders to end the yearslong conflict that has brought the Arab world's poorest country to the brink of famine. The U.N. report...

Fifteen Turkish crew members of a cargo ship who were kidnapped by pirates last month off west Africa have been freed, a shipping company announced Friday. Boden Denizcilik said all 15 seamen were safe and had made contact with their families. They would be flown back to Turkey as soon...

About 400,000 children under the age of five are in danger of dying of acute malnutrition in war-torn and impoverished Yemen, UN agencies warned Friday. They said half of those in the most vulnerable age bracket, or 2.3 million small children, are projected to suffer from severe...

Lawyers for Donald Trump take the Senate floor Friday to rebut the Democratic-led impeachment of the former president for inciting insurrection, with Republican lawmakers then widely expected to vote to acquit. Democratic impeachment managers rested their case Thursday after two days of...

Enis Berberoglu, a deputy in Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), officially regained his position as an MP on Thursday after an Istanbul court halted criminal complaints against him. Berberoglu had been convicted of disclosing confidential state documents...

The general supervisor of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, met Timothy Lenderking, the US special envoy to Yemen, at the center’s headquarters in Riyadh on Thursday. In the meeting, they discussed humanitarian and relief affairs in...

Turkey’s presidential spokesman urged the US on Thursday to end its support for the PYD/YPG terrorist group.  “The US should end its support to the PYD/YPG. It should say 'stop' to FETO's activities there,” said Ibrahim Kalin during an interview with TRT Haber, Turkey’s state-run news...