Libya's coast guard says it has intercepted around four dozen Europe-bound migrants off the Mediterranean coast and taken them to a detention center that was bombed earlier this month. Spokesperson Ayoub Gassim says a rubber boat carrying 38 migrants, mostly Egyptians, was stopped Tuesday...

Every morning, Hadil Mahmoud, a 13-year-old Yemeni girl, used to practice her favorite hobby of climbing trees near her home in the central Taiz province.  One day, a random shell struck nearby as the Yemeni child was moving up a tree in her hometown of Al-Arari in the war-ravaged...

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...