The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday demanded that deposed Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir stand trial for the mass killings perpetrated in Darfur. "Now is the time for the people of Sudan to choose law over impunity and ensure that the ICC suspects in the...

Regime attacks killed 16 civilians and nine combatants in Syria's militant-run northwest Wednesday, an activist group said, the latest violence to rattle a region housing three million people. Eleven civilians were killed in regime airstrikes on a village in the Jabal al-Zawiya region of...

A nearly week-long barrage of anonymous shelling attacks on American interests across Iraq are intended to signal Iran's long reach and "embarrass" Baghdad amid spiralling US-Iran tensions, observers say. The incidents were not claimed but largely originated from areas where...

Sudan's ruling generals must swiftly hand power to civilians if they are to regain the trust they lost after a deadly crackdown on protesters this month, Britain's envoy to Khartoum has told AFP. Crowds of protesters who had camped for weeks outside the capital's army headquarters to demand...