Yemeni government officials say President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi has returned home from Saudi Arabia to attend a rare session of parliament and elect a speaker. The officials say Hadi's presidential plane departed from Riyadh and landed in the eastern Yemeni city of Sayoun on Friday, where...

The new head of Sudan's transitional military council is said not to be affiliated with any political body or organization, according to sources with close links to him. Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Burhan, 60, served in Sudan’s border guard and was later appointed to China as a...

Crowds of Sudanese waving flags and chanting "we toppled two presidents in two days" celebrated in the capital late Friday after the country's military council chief stepped down a day after he was sworn in. "We have done it, we have done it," shouted young men and women as they drove...

 Sudan’s military council chief Gen. Awad Ibn Auf announced Friday he was stepping down, just a day after he was sworn in following the ouster of veteran President Omar al-Bashir. “I hereby announce my resignation as head of the Transitional Military Council and the appointment of the...