Presidential hopefuls in Tunisia began registering their candidacies Friday for snap September polls called after the death of 92-year-old leader Beji Caid Essebsi. Eight would-be candidates, including media magnate Nabil Karoui, submitted their papers to the North African country's...

Al-Qaeda gunmen killed 19 soldiers in an attack on an army base in southern Yemen Friday, security officials said, a day after deadly assaults by rebels and a jihadist bomber. The gunmen stormed Al-Mahfad base in Abyan province and remained inside for several hours before military...

 A senior Sudanese army commander said a security force assigned to guard a bank in Al-Obeid was responsible for killing children protesting in the city earlier this week, the official SUNA news agency reported Thursday. At least six people were killed at a rally in Al-Obeid, 400 km...

The government in sanctions-hit Iran on Wednesday approved a plan to remove zeros from the rial and rename the currency -- something its people have long been doing to simplify transactions. "The cabinet today agreed on a bill to eliminate four zeros from the currency and that 'toman' will...