At least 16 people have been killed and 20 others injured in Khartoum amid insecurity following the ouster of long-serving President Omar al-Bashir, according to the Sudanese police on Saturday. In a statement, police said several looting attacks were reported in the capital in the past two...

Forces loyal to East Libya-based Khalifa Haftar carried out an airstrike in southern Tripoli on Saturday, according to local media. The attack targeted a military camp of a militia aligned with the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Ain Zara area, the media said. No...

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 military...

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...

A war plane belonging to the eastern Libyan forces Friday attacked a military camp of a force allied to the internationally recognized government near the western town of Zuwara, an eastern military source and residents said. The airstrike is the closest yet to an oil and gas facility...

More than 8,000 people have fled fighting around Libya's capital, half of whom have been displaced over the last two days, the United Nations said Friday. "Displacements from areas affected by the clashes in an around Tripoli continue to surge," U.N. spokesman Rheal Leblanc told...

Sudan's Bashir will not be handed over to other countries, head of Political Military Council says

Gunfire and blasts echoed through downtown Tripoli in the small hours of Friday as the eastern Libyan LNA force pushed against the forces of the internationally recognized government around the disused international airport and the Ain Zara district. Fighting between the eastern force...

Algerian protesters gathered for the first Friday protests since the announcement of presidential elections to succeed ousted leader Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika fearing a ploy by the ruling system to stay in power. Social media, the source of mass protests which led to the end of Bouteflika's...

Thousands of Sudanese demonstrators camped outside the defence ministry in Khartoum Thursday night to push for a civilian government, defying a curfew and calling for mass prayers after the military overthrew Omar al-Bashir after 30 years of autocratic rule. Demonstrators who have been...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on all parties in Sudan to exercise "calm and utmost restraint" Thursday following the ouster of long-time President Omar al-Bashir. Guterres "recalls his previous encouragement and expectation that the democratic aspiration of the Sudanese...

Egypt’s Interior Ministry on Thursday announced that 11 armed attackers were killed in the country's northeastern Sinai region. In a written statement, the ministry said clashes had erupted between security forces and an armed group in the Al-Arish city of North Sinai. Egyptian...

President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan with an iron fist for 30 years, was on Thursday overthrown in a coup by the armed forces which announced a two-year period of military rule to be followed by elections. In an address on state television, Defense Minister Awad Mohammad Ahmad Ibn Auf...

Fighting between eastern Libyan forces and Tripoli government troops killed 56 people and forced 6,000 to flee their homes in the capital in the last week, the United Nations said on Thursday, as France and Italy wrangled over how to respond to the renewed conflict. After sweeping up from...

Tens of thousands of Sudanese were making their way to the center of the country's capital on Thursday, cheering and clapping in celebration as two senior officials said the military had forced longtime autocratic President Omar al-Bashir to step down after 30 years in power. The...

Sudan's Omar al-Bashir has stepped down as president, Sudanese military sources claimed in an apparent military takeover Thursday. Al-Bashir has been placed under house arrest as his bodyguards have been detained, military sources said.  Military sources said Sudanese military...

Algeria will hold a presidential election on July 4, the interim presidency said on Wednesday after weeks of mass protests led to the resignation of long-serving leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika. No further details were immediately given. On Tuesday, interim president Abdelkader Bensalah had...

Algeria's Interior Ministry has issued licenses for 10 new political parties, private Ennahar TV said Wednesday, after a newly-appointed interim president vowed to organize free elections in the face of growing calls for democracy. Protesters in Algeria, a major oil and natural gas...