emeni security officials say forces loyal to the internationally recognized government have recaptured a key district in the southern Dhale province. Officials say the fighting has killed at least 120 people from both sides since government fighters launched an offensive Friday to push out...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned 560 prisoners, the majority of whom were accused of supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, two judicial sources said on Friday. Of those pardoned, 482 were imprisoned on charges related to the Brotherhood, a decades-old Islamist...

Egypt has deported 33 Sudanese migrants who were trying to reach Libya to head onward to Europe. Cairo airport officials said Friday the Sudanese were arrested earlier this month in the western coastal city of Marsa Matruh, not far from Libya's border, along with dozens of Egyptians and...

Dozens of international aid groups say conditions in Syria's northwest have reached "crisis point" and are calling for an immediate end to the fighting. The aid groups said, in an appeal issued Friday, violence has displaced an estimated 180,000 people in the last two weeks. The clashes...