The UN chief called for more pressure to be applied to Yemen's warring parties to come together to arrange a cease-fire in the war that has cost more than 10,000 lives and displaced two million people in the world's worst humanitarian disaster. Yemeni people are "suffering terribly" and...

Libya has downgraded its diplomatic representation to Tuesday's Arab League ministerial meeting on the Libyan crisis, criticizing the "double standards" followed by the Cairo-based league.  "Up until now, an [Arab League] session called for by Libya since April of last year has not...

Sudan's foreign minister said Tuesday that her country is nearing a deal with Washington to compensate the families of victims of deadly 1998 embassy bombings, paving the way to Khartoum's removal from a US terror blacklist. Massive, nearly simultaneous blasts at the American embassies in...

A new round of clashes erupted between government forces and the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen's southern Abyan province on Tuesday, according to a Yemeni military source. The violence came hours after the Saudi-led coalition said the Yemeni government and STC,...