Yemen's internationally recognized president sent a letter to the U.N. chief, criticizing his envoy to the war-torn Arab country over allegedly siding with Iran-backed Houthi rebels, the president's office said Friday. In the letter addressed to Antonio Guterres, Yemeni President Abed...

Algerian police arrested dozens of people Friday at the Grand Post Office, a key rallying point for protesters in the capital Algiers, witnesses and journalists said. An AFP journalist saw a woman arrested near the post office, where security fences were erected this week in an attempt to...

A top Sudanese general vowed to back regional ally Saudi Arabia against "all threats and attacks" from its rival Iran during talks with the kingdom's powerful crown prince, Sudan's ruling military council said Friday. General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy chief of Sudan's new...

The fight for control of Libya's capital is depriving tens of thousands of pupils of their education, with high school students displaced by the violence fretting about their future. "We've fallen behind... and I don't even know where we will sit our final exams or how they will calculate...

Yemen's Houthi group said it launched a drone attack on a Patriot missile battery in the airport of the Saudi city of Najran near the Yemeni border, the group's Al-Masirah TV said Thursday. The Houthis, who ousted the Saudi-backed Yemeni president from power in the capital Sanaa in 2014,...

Sudan's protest leaders are calling for mass rallies across the country amid deadlocked negotiations with the ruling military over its handover of power. The Sudanese Professionals' Association, which has spearheaded four months of protests that drove Omar al-Bashir from power in April,...

UN envoy Ghassan Salame has bitterly denounced the conflict in Libya saying it is "committing suicide" and plundering its oil wealth to pay for the war. The north African country was "a textbook example of foreign interference today in local conflicts," Salame told a New York-based think...

France granted asylums to 28 Yazidi women and their children, the country’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. In a written statement, the ministry said Yazidi women with their children, who suffered at the hands of Daesh terrorist group, flew from the northern Iraqi city of Erbil to the...

Iranian and U.S. leaders have reassured their nations that they do not seek war. But among ordinary Iranians who already face hardship from tightening sanctions, nerves are being strained by worry that the situation could slip out of control. In interviews conducted from outside the country...

Sudan’s military wants to hand power to a democratically elected government as soon as possible in the tumultuous aftermath of former president Omar al-Bashir’s overthrow, a prominent general said in an interview published on Wednesday. “We got tired. We want to hand over power today not...

Libyan eastern commander Khalifa Haftar told French President Emmanuel Macron that conditions for a cease-fire were not in place, although he would be ready to talk if those conditions were met, a French presidency official said. Haftar, who met Macron in Paris Wednesday, also said neither...

Algeria’s army chief of staff said on Wednesday he had no political ambitions in response to democracy activists who say that he intends to copy the authoritarian model of Egypt. The armed forces have been a pivotal power center in Algeria for decades and have been managing a transition...

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement launched a drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s Najran airport, the group’s Al Masirah TV said early Wednesday. It said it targeted hangars containing war planes. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. There was also no immediate comment from...

While rival Libyan forces fight for control of the capital, an economic war is playing out which could have grave and lasting consequences for the oil-rich country. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands wounded since the battle for Tripoli erupted on April 4, when commander...

Sudanese prosecutors ordered the arrest of former intelligence chief for questioning over a bank account but his guards blocked his arrest, the prosecutor's office said Tuesday. Salah Abdallah Mohamed Salah, known as Salah Gosh, was to be questioned over an account containing 46 billion...

The UN envoy for Libya warned Tuesday the battle for Tripoli was "just the start of a long and bloody war" and called for immediate steps to cut off arms flows fueling the fighting. Addressing the Security Council, Ghassan Salame said many countries were supplying weapons to the...

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement targeted an arms depot at Najran airport in Saudi Arabia which caused a fire to break out in the facility, the group’s Al Masirah TV said on Tuesday. Earlier the Saudi-led military coalition said a civilian facility in Saudi Arabia’s province of Najran...

Sudanese army rulers and protesters failed Tuesday to reach an agreement yet again on the make-up of a new ruling body as negotiations also became deadlocked over who should lead it - a civilian or soldier. The two sides launched a round of new talks late Sunday over the sovereign council...

Sudan's army rulers and protesters resume talks Monday to finalise the makeup of a new ruling body after overnight negotiations remained deadlocked following a "dispute" over who should lead it. The two sides launched a round of new talks Sunday evening over the form of the authority to...

Despite a UN embargo, weapons are still flowing into Libya where an assault on the capital by strongman Khalifa Haftar threatens to escalate into a proxy war between regional powers. Haftar, whose self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) is allied with an administration in eastern Libya, is...