Twelve articles of agreement were reached Wednesday in meetings of the 5+5 Joint Military Committee on the implementation of a permanent cease-fire in Libya.   The military committee meetings in the town of Ghadames in the southwest ended and "agreed on concrete steps to be taken...

Defence lawyers in the trial of Sudan's ousted president Omar al-Bashir over a 1989 coup Tuesday kept up accusations that the prosecutor general was ineligible for the case. "The prosecutor general has been politicised, he is exploiting his authority," a member of the defence team charged...

Military leaders from Libya’s warring sides arrived Monday in the oasis town of Ghadames, the United Nations said, for the first face-to-face talks inside Libya since last year's months-long attack on the capital by forces loyal to the country's east-based military commander. The...

Dubbed the "Manhattan of the desert" for its centuries-old skyscrapers, Yemen's ancient city of Shibam escaped damage in the civil war -- but faces collapse from disrepair amid rains and floods. Against a backdrop of cliffs looking like America's Grand Canyon, the UNESCO-listed World...