Italy said on Thursday it had done a deal with EU countries to share out migrants aboard a charity ship at sea in the Mediterranean, resolving the first of what may be repeated episodes that will test the new government in Rome. The Ocean Viking, run by French charities SOS Mediterranee and...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Militant Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group has arrested an orthopaedic surgeon after being chased, shot on his foot, beaten and insulted for hours, Free Doctors Syndicate in northern Idlib province said Wednesday. Dr. Othman al-Hassan, who works in the Bab...
An eastern Sudanese port city remained volatile after tribal clashes last week killed at least 37 people, including a child, activists said. The fighting in Port Sudan, in the Red Sea province, erupted last Thursday between the Bani Amer tribe and the displaced Nuba tribe. The...
As the crowd erupted into a thunderous roar to mark the signing of a declaration on Sudan's transitional constitution, 19-year-old Ali broke into tears for his dead brother. "My brother was shot dead on June 3," he said, referring to the brutal crackdown on a protest sit-in that eventually...
