The head of an Algerian political party that was part of the ruling coalition under former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika became the first candidate Wednesday to register for presidential polls. Azzedine Mihoubi, leader of the Democratic National Rally party (RND), submitted his candidacy...

 Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday said the regime would support Kurdish fighters in the northeast of the war-torn country against Turkish soldiers and allied Syrian rebels. "We are prepared to support any group carrying out popular resistance against the Turkish aggression," he said in a...

 Kurdish politician Hevrin Khalaf spent the final months of her life building a political party that she hoped would help shape Syria’s future, drawing the attention of U.S. officials who said it would have a say in what happened once the war ended. To her colleagues in the Future...

Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi was forecast to be heading for a landslide victory Tuesday in an election the opposition says has been tarnished by fraud while observers reported numerous irregularities. Some polling stations recorded many more votes than registered voters in last...