KAMPALA- Joseph Kony, the elusive leader of one of Africa's most brutal rebel groups, Lord's Resistance Army, has waged a more than two-decade long insurgency sowing terror across four countries....
WASHINGTON, Jo Biddle- Secretary of State John Kerry is plunging back into the Middle East with his third trip in a month, foraging for signs that Israel and the Palestinians are ready to make tough...
PARIS- Four little black sheep on Wednesday left the countryside and began their new careers in the city: working as eco-friendly lawn mowers in a largely working-class district in northeastern...
BEIRUT- Fighting between rebels and loyalist forces raged in two Damascus neighbourhoods on Tuesday while shelling of a village near the Syrian capital left four members of a family dead, a watchdog...
The British Broadcasting Corporation was subsequently damaged by a botched television report wrongly indicating that a lawmaker was a paedophile, sparking a shake-up in the BBC's top posts. Engulfed...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon- Unknown attackers kidnapped nine members of Syria's Alawite community on Monday after they crossed into Lebanon by bus, a security official said. The assailants seized the group...
ALGIERS- Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci met UN envoy Christopher Ross on Monday and spoke of the "hope of progress" on the decades-old Western Sahara conflict during his latest visit to the...
BEIRUT- Fierce fighting between Syrian rebels and regime forces has sparked an exodus of residents from the Sheikh Maqsud district of the northern city of Aleppo, a watchdog group said on Sunday....
ALGIERS, Abdelhafid Daamache- Algerian authorities have given the all-clear for a union of imams to protect the country's traditionally moderate form of Islam from the teachings of hardline Salafists...
JOHANNESBURG, Susan Njanji- Nelson Mandela's health is improving and he will continue to receive treatment for a recurrence of pneumonia, the South African presidency said Sunday, as the...