The Transitional Military Council (TMC) in Sudan has declared the release of all prisoners who took part in rebel movements in recent years, its deputy chair said Monday. Addressing crowds in the country's capital of Khartoum, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who is also chief of the country's Rapid...

A U.S.-led peace conference on the Palestinian economy could present Washington with a new opportunity to push Gulf allies and Israel closer together as tensions with common foe Iran rise. The Palestinian Authority is boycotting the Peace to Prosperity conference that opens Tuesday in Bahrain,...

Sudanese authorities must grant human rights monitors access to the country and end "repression" against protesters and the shutdown of the Internet, U.N. human rights boss Michelle Bachelet said Monday. Bachelet, in a speech opening a three-week session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in...

Sudan's protest movement accepted an Ethiopian roadmap for a civilian-led transitional government, a spokesman said Sunday, after a months-long standoff with the country's military rulers. Ethiopia has led diplomatic efforts to bring the protest and military leaders back to the negotiating...