ADDIS ABABA/DUBAI: When the leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea embraced in Asmara last month, vowing to end the 2-decade-old state of war between their two...
NAIROBI: A battle for access to seaports is underway in one of the world’s unlikeliest places: Somalia, now caught up in a regional struggle between...
DOLLOW, Somalia: At the height of Somalia’s 2011 famine, Madow Mohammad had to leave her crippled 5-year-old son Abdirahman by the side of the road to lead...
JUBA: South Sudan is tackling the chief obstacle to new investment in its oil sector – security – as it aims next year to restore production to the level...
IRBIL/BAGHDAD: Iraq said Monday it had put its Tikrit offensive on hold and senior officials called for more airstrikes to dislodge ISIS militants, while a...
BAGHDAD: Iraq said Monday it had put its Tikrit offensive on hold and senior officials called for more air strikes to dislodge ISIS militants who have laid...
CAIRO: A circular patch of land in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square poses a dilemma for the government: How to honor the epicenter of the 2011 popular uprising...
CAIRO: Cairo airport officials heightened security measures on Tuesday after police found two bombs in different terminals of the city's main airport,...
CAIRO: A crackdown on protests in Egypt is not expected to provoke widespread unrest that threatens President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s rule, as most Egyptians...
CAIRO: At least 15 people were killed in anti-government protests in Egypt on Sunday, the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni...
IRBIL, Iraq: As the season for wheat planting in Iraq wound down early last month, farmers in areas under the control of ISIS grew worried. More than two...
CAIRO: The successful rollout so far of a new “smart card” system to distribute subsidized bread has been a major achievement for Egypt’s government, saving...
MINYA: Two Egyptian policemen were shot dead on Tuesday as they stood guard at a Coptic Christian church in a city south of Cairo, witnesses and a local...
CAIRO: Egypt plans to offer cheap loans for completing apartments in unfinished buildings thrown up illegally across its cities, hoping to tackle a housing...
CAIRO: Egyptian police arrested 29-year-old Sherif Siam while clearing a Cairo protest camp one year ago. Four days later, he and 36 others suffocated in a...
BAGHDAD/ABU DHABI: After seizing five oil fields and Iraq’s biggest dam, Sunni militants bent on creating an Islamic empire in the Middle East now...
BAGHDAD: The ancient Christian community of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul had all but fled by Saturday, ending a presence stretching back nearly two...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces have withdrawn from the militant-held city of Tikrit after their new offensive met heavy resistance, in a blow to the government effort...
BAGHDAD: The video on his phone shows the boy firing a heavy machine gun mounted on a tripod through a hole in a crumbling building, his slender body shaking...
BAGHDAD/MOSUL: One night last week, ISIS militants in an SUV with tinted windows pulled up at the home of a former Iraqi army officer, one of the men they see...
BAGHDAD: Islamist militants claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in Baghdad, and there were signs the deadlock paralyzing Iraq's parliament might...
CAIRO/LONDON: In the northwest corner of the Nile Delta, Ibrahim Sharaf Al-Dein fires up his diesel-powered pump next to a murky canal only to watch it spew...
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi army retook Saddam Hussein's home village overnight, a symbolic and tactical victory in its push against Sunni insurgents that have...
CAIRO: Two Egyptian police officers were killed Monday while trying to defuse makeshift bombs planted near Cairo's presidential palace by Islamist...