Accra: Ghanians voted Wednesday in tight presidential and parliamentary polls that are seen as a litmus test of stability for Africa's most secure...
Accra: Ghanians voted Wednesday in tight presidential and parliamentary polls that are seen as a litmus test of stability for Africa's most secure...
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels in besieged easternAleppo called for an immediate five-day ceasefire, negotiations about the future of the city and for medical and...
ANKARA: Turkish warplanes carried out air strikes against 12 Islamic State targets in the al-Bab region of northern Syria on Wednesday and killed...
Aden: More than 50 people are missing and just two have been rescued after a cargo vessel sank off Yemen's Socotra island, authorities...
AMMAN: Ahzan was shopping in a market in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad when an explosion ripped through the street, lifting her off...
NAIROBI: South Sudan has deported a journalist working for the international Associated Press news agency, and the reporter said on Wednesday that it...
Yangon: Myanmar has stopped sending workers to Muslim-majority Malaysia as relations sour over a bloody military crackdown on the Buddhist country's Rohingya minority....
New York: Iran's Permanent Representative to the UN Gholamali Khoshroo in a letter to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced Iran's...
ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that Turkey is set to have 54 diplomatic missions in 54 African nations to strengthen relations...
ALEPPO, Syria: At least 29 civilians were killed and scores of others were injured on Tuesday in airstrikes launched by the Assad regime’s...
KABUL: Brushing aside suicide bombings and public scorn, the young women of Afghanistan's first freestyle cycling club hope their pop-a-wheelies, bunnyhops and backflips...
WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday called for the U.S. to cancel an order for a new presidential aircraft, citing alleged cost overruns. ...
NAIROBI: A total of 127 traffic police officers in Kenya have been fired after failing a vetting process, authorities said Tuesday. National Police...
Lampung, Indonesia: It was the middle of the night when the villagers sounded the alarm: a huge Sumatran elephant was raiding their rice...
ATHENS: A march by anti-establishment activist groups to mark eight years since the shooting death of a teenager by police in 2008, turned...
MOSCOW/WASHINGTON: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday said a meeting on Aleppo set for Wednesday in Geneva has been canceled after the U.S....
ALEPPO, Syria: At least 53 civilians were killed Tuesday in regime attacks in the northwestern city of Aleppo, according to a civil defense...
Beirut: At least 80,000 people have fled east Aleppo since the Syrian army began an operation in mid-November to recapture the rebel-held sector...
