UN envoy Ghassan Salame has bitterly denounced the conflict in Libya saying it is "committing suicide" and plundering its oil wealth to pay for the war. The north African country was "a textbook example of foreign interference today in local conflicts," Salame told a New York-based think...

France granted asylums to 28 Yazidi women and their children, the country’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. In a written statement, the ministry said Yazidi women with their children, who suffered at the hands of Daesh terrorist group, flew from the northern Iraqi city of Erbil to the...

Iranian and U.S. leaders have reassured their nations that they do not seek war. But among ordinary Iranians who already face hardship from tightening sanctions, nerves are being strained by worry that the situation could slip out of control. In interviews conducted from outside the country...

Sudan’s military wants to hand power to a democratically elected government as soon as possible in the tumultuous aftermath of former president Omar al-Bashir’s overthrow, a prominent general said in an interview published on Wednesday. “We got tired. We want to hand over power today...