Tunisia Women's Day protest Aug. 13 last year. The assassination of leftist leader Chokri Belaid on Feb. 6, apparently by Islamists, has brought into the open the long-simmering conflict that has pitted the ruling Islamist Ennahda Party against progressives, trade… Read moreTunisia on Razor’s Edge
A Moroccan military court handed prison sentences, including eight life terms, to a group of 24 accused of killing members of the security forces in occupied Western Sahara in 2010.
A new wave of suicide bombings targeting Iraqi intelligence and judicial officials coincides with widespread Sunni protests demanding the resignaiton of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Security forces in Malaysian Borneo are in a stand-off with some 100 men they say are insurgents from the Philippine island of Sulu raising an ancestral claim to the territory.
After tense negotiations, the Red Cross transported to safety two Colombian National Police agents taken captive by the FARC guerillas in Cauca department last month.
A document found in a demolished building in Timbuktu purports to reveal plans by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb to establish "command and control" over northern Mali.
A teenage boy was killed in clashes with police at a Shi'ite village near Bahrain's capital Manama as hundreds took to the streets to mark the second anniversary of the uprising.
Hundreds of neo-Nazis attempting to march on Dresden to crash commemorations of the 1945 bombardment were blocked by a human chain of thousands of anti-fascists.
A court in Argentina found that the country’s Catholic Church was complicit with crimes committed during the dictatorship’s “dirty war” on leftist dissidents in the 1970s.
The Thai military says Islamist insurgents in the country's south have formed a "Pattani Army" after an audacious raid on a government base near the Malay border.
Tension remains high in Gao after a pitched battle over the weekend as French troops beat back an attempt by MUJAO fighters to retake the remote northern Malian city.
Colombia’s peace advocates are calling for inclusion of the ELN guerillas in the Havana dialogue with the FARC, warning of a “marginalized” front in the civil war.
