A new bout of deadly violence in Sudan's ravaged Darfur region is an attempt to sabotage the country's fragile transition since last year's ouster of strongman President Omar al-Bashir, analysts say. It threatens to derail Khartoum's renewed efforts to stabilise a harsh, drought-plagued...

The governor of Iran's western province of Kermanshah, governor Fazlollah Ranjbar, contradicted reports from Iran's Mizan news agency, that attributed a fire outbreak of fuel tanks fires to an explosion. "We did not have any explosions anywhere in the city today and the black smoke that...

Israel’s presence in Libya has escaped most publicitiy, but numerous media reports revealed that Tel Aviv secretly supports eastern Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar against the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj. Israel views its support...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that Pyongyang's nuclear weapons guarantee its safety, state media reported Tuesday, signalling once again that it will not give up its arsenal. Kim was addressing a conference of veterans on the 67th anniversary of the 1953 armistice that ended Korean...