A Sudanese medical group said Friday that 22 civilians were killed and hundreds injured in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in southern Sudan. The Sudan Doctors Syndicate said RSF attacked eastern villages of Sennar State, including the Sheikh Al-Samani village, and...

MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — In sweltering temperatures, Muslim pilgrims in Mecca converged on a vast tent camp in the desert on Friday, officially opening  the annual Hajj pilgrimage . Ahead of their trip, they circled the cube-shaped Kaaba in the Grand Mosque, Islam’s holiest site....

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...