WASHINGTON — The Obama administration closed the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday and pulled all American diplomats out of violence-wracked Syria as the U.S. stepped up pressure on President Bashar Assad to leave...
BENGHAZI, Libya — Muammar Qaddafi loyalists have seized control of a Libyan town and raised the ousted regime’s green flag, an official and commander said Tuesday. The retaking of Bani Walid comes as Libya’s...
Fresh attacks blamed on Islamist separatists in northern Nigeria on Sunday killed nine people and damaged two churches as doctors warned as the death toll from earlier multiple bombs could rise to 250. Explosions...
LAGOS, Nigeria — Coordinated attacks claimed by a radical Islamist sect left at least 143 people dead in Nigeria’s second-largest city, a hospital official said Saturday. The official said Saturday that the figure represented...
RABAT, Morocco — Five unemployed Moroccan men set themselves on fire in the capital Rabat as part of widespread demonstrations in the country over the lack of jobs, especially for university graduates, a rights...
CAIRO – Reform leader Mohammed ElBaradei’s surprise pullout from the presidential race has laid bare the messiness of Egypt’s transition to democracy with less than six months left for the ruling generals to hand...
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) — Protests that started over a scrapped fuel subsidy expanded into an outcry against the government’s shortcomings as throngs of Nigerians of all classes took to the streets for a fourth...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s nuclear chief says his country is willing to help what he called “friendly” African nations that have uranium reserves to set up facilities to process the ore into nuclear material....
(CBS/AP) CAIRO – Egyptians voted Tuesday in the final round of elections likely to seal the domination by Islamists over the country’s new parliament as secular activists grew increasingly worried over the possibility of...
Nigerian Christians will have “no other option” but to defend themselves if attacks by Islamist militants continue, church leaders have said. The Christian Association of Nigeria said the Boko Haram group had declared war...
