Sudanese security forces used teargas and batons on Thursday to disperse thousands of protesters demanding the reinstatement of army officers dismissed last week for refusing to crack down on demonstrations against former president Omar al-Bashir, witnesses said. The clashes were the worst...

Libya's warring sides have resumed talks in Geneva aimed at brokering a lasting ceasefire in the war-torn country, the U.N. said Thursday. "The talks are underway again," Jean El-Alam, spokesman for the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, told AFP, days after the country's unity...

Tunisia is set to hold a confidence vote on a new government on February 26, after more than four months of political wrangling since elections, a parliament statement said Thursday. The parliament announced a date for the vote on Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh's government after the premier...

At least 19 children were killed in airstrikes in northern Yemen last weekend, and wounded nearly as many, UNICEF said in a Thursday statement. "UNICEF is sad to confirm that the recent attack in Al-Jawf, north of Yemen, on 15 February, took the lives of 19 children (eight boys and 11...