EL AMRA, Tunisia (AP) — For many migrants who’ve long dreamed of Europe, one of the last stops is an expanse of olive trees on North Africa's Mediterranean coastline. But in Tunisia, less than 100 miles (161 kilometers) from the Italian islands that form the European Union’s outermost...

(THE CONVERSATION) “Sudan’s moment has come; chaos is our chance to sow the seeds of jihad,”  warned  Abu Hudhaifa al-Sudani, a high-ranking al-Qaida leader, in an  October 2022 manifesto . His words may have seemed premature at the time, but a year of  brutal civil...

Forty-five journalists have been killed in Yemen since the fighting erupted between the internationally-recognized Yemeni government and the Houthi group in 2015, a journalists group said Friday.  The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate on World Press Freedom Day said 165 press platforms...

The US on Wednesday redesignated Yemen's Houthi group as specially designated global terrorists in response to the Iran-backed group's attacks in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.  Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that Yemeni rebels have carried out attacks on...