PM Abdalla Hamdok’s cabinet includes Sudan’s first woman foreign minister and a former World Bank economist. Sudan’s prime minister has announced the formation of the first government since the military removed longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir in April after widespread street protests. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok announced the names of 18 ministers in the new Cabinet […]

ANKARA (REUTERS) – Turkey plans to resettle one million refugees in northern Syria and may reopen the route for migrants into Europe if it does not receive adequate international support for the plan, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday (Sept 5). Ankara, which hosts 3.6 million Syrian refugees, controls parts of north Syria where it […]

KABUL (AP) – A large car bomb rocked the Afghan capital on Thursday (Sept 5) and smoke rose from a part of eastern Kabul near a neighbourhood housing the US Embassy, the Nato Resolute Support mission and other diplomatic missions. At least three people were killed and another 30 wounded, a hospital director said. It […]

Iran has announced it is lifting all limits on nuclear research – the latest step in scaling down its commitments made under a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. President Hassan Rouhani said from 6 September the country would begin developing centrifuges to speed up the enrichment of uranium. Under the accord, Iran agreed to […]

Iran is to lift all limits on nuclear research and development – the latest step in reducing its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. President Hassan Rouhani said from Friday the country would begin developing centrifuges to speed up the enrichment of uranium. Last year, the US withdrew from the 2015 deal […]

GENEVA — All parties to the war in Yemen are committing horrific abuses, from arbitrary killings to rape and torture, with an impunity that underscores a collective failure of the international community, a panel of international experts said on Tuesday. Saudi authorities directing airstrikes in Yemen that have inflicted heavy civilian casualties and deepened the […]

A peaceful uprising against the president of Syria almost eight years ago turned into a full-scale civil war. The conflict has left more than 360,000 people dead, devastated cities and drawn in other countries. How did the Syrian war start? Even before the conflict began, many Syrians were complaining about high unemployment, corruption and a […]

BEIRUT (REUTERS) – The Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1 at the centre of a dispute between Teheran and Western powers appears to have turned off its transponder in the Mediterranean west of Syria, Refinitiv ship-tracking data showed on Tuesday (Sept 3). The tanker which is loaded with Iranian crude oil, sent its last signal […]

Ahmed Gaid Salah says election date should be announced in mid-September, lashes out at opponents of vote. Algeria’s army chief Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaid Salah has said the date of the country’s long-delayed presidential election should be announced by mid-September – a move that would result in polls being held before the end of the year. […]

BAIJI, Iraq (AFP) – One man lost his uncle. Another is mourning for two sons. Farmers and herders in Iraq’s Baiji say mines left by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group turned their beloved orchards into killing fields. The improvised explosive devices, planted by extremists trying to fend off Iraqi troops in […]