Veteran Sudan Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, one of the fiercest critics of President Omar al-Bashir's government, died of a heart attack on Saturday aged 84, officials said. "The Islamist intellectual Hassan al-Turabi has died," the state broadcaster reported. It interrupted its...

 One of the main Western-backed Syrian opposition groups has elected a new leader after the term of its former chief ended. The Turkey-based Syrian National Coalition says longtime member Anas al-Abda was elected president on Saturday, replacing Khaled Khoja. The coalition said in a...

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Saturday that Syrian President Bashar Assad must leave at the beginning of a political transition, not at the end. "For us it is very clear it's at the beginning of the process, not at the end of the process, it's not going to be 18 months," Jubeir...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in a late phone conversation on Friday called for a prompt start to the next round of Syria peace talks, Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The talks, under the aegis of the United Nations were...