UN-backed peace talks with one of the two formal sides of Libya's warring factions started on Wednesday in Geneva in an effort to end the country's political and security crisis. "We are starting a process, it’s going to be a long process,...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Falling oil revenues and intensifying fighting across Libya mean the humanitarian situation is worsening and basic public services may collapse, aid agencies said. Three years after the overthrow and killing of Muammar Gaddafi, two...
At least 30 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants and four Iraqi Peshmerga fighters were killed in clashes in northern Iraq Saturday, a Peshmerga source said. All the casualties took place in Kuwair village located 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of Erbil city....
A Tunisian military court Tuesday denied bail for a blogger who is appealing his three-year jail sentence for defaming the army -- a case that has alarmed rights campaigners. The court scheduled the next hearing for Yassine Ayari on January 20. Ayari, 33, was...
