President Muhammadu Buhari’s office on Monday defended the arrests of senior judges as part of Nigeria’s campaign against corruption. At least four and as many as seven judges from the country’s highest courts were arrested over the weekend by the Department for State Security (DSS),...

Thousands of Yemenis, many of them armed, gathered at the United Nations headquarters in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Sunday calling for an international investigation into an air strike on a wake this weekend that was widely blamed on Saudi-led forces. The attack - that killed at least 140...

An air strike on a funeral wake, widely blamed on Saudi-led warplanes, poses more trouble for a Western-backed Arab campaign against Yemen's Houthis that has long been criticized for civilian losses. The White House announced an immediate review of Washington's support for the 18-month-old...

An Egyptian Court on Saturday has postponed a hearing of an appeal by Mohamed Morsi, the first democratically elected president in Egypt, in the case known in the media as "Itehadeya Palace incidents", a judicial source told Anadolu Agency . Morsi, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison,...