South Sudan's government and rebels are set for New Year's Day peace talks in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to thrash…
Giving the peace process another try, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government on Tuesday tasked JUI-S chief Maulana Samiul Haq with initiating…
Twenty-six Palestinian prisoners have been released from Israeli jails, as part of a US-brokered deal to restart Middle East negotiations.…
The Taliban and other militant groups will have the upper hand in Afghanistan by 2017 even if the United States…
As the year of withdrawal begins, a majority in America wants the US president to pull out his troops from…
The Syrian government has evacuated about 5,000 people from an embattled industrial town near the capital Damascus, where rebels linked…
Iraqi security forces arrested a Sunni Muslim member of parliament in the western city of Ramadi and clashed with his…
At least five people have been killed and 265 others arrested as Egyptian riot police deployed water cannon and tear…
Former Lebanese minister and opposition figure Mohamad Chatah has been killed by a car bomb in central Beirut. (more…)
Egypt’s interim government has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation, a move that gives authorities greater freedom to crack…