Sudanese protester Walid Abdelrahim was shot dead last month in Khartoum but for his mother he is still alive -- thanks to a colourful mural of his smiling face on a wall of their home. "The painting keeps him alive," said Maiyssa Omar, her voice choking as she talked of her son, who was...

The war in Yemen can be stopped because the warring sides still support a U.N. peace deal brokered in Stockholm last December, U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday. The four-year war between the Iran-aligned Houthi movement and a Saudi-backed coalition supporting the Yemeni...

A Beirut judge issued arrest warrants in absentia Tuesday against 10 Libyan defendants, including the son of the late ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, in the case of the disappearance of Imam Musa Sadr and his companions.

Hundreds of Sudanese university students chanting "civilian rule, civilian rule" rallied in downtown Khartoum on Tuesday seeking justice for fellow pupils killed in months of political unrest. The rally follows a power sharing deal signed last week between protest leaders and army rulers,...