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TUNIS — Police used tear gas and truncheons to disperse protesters seeking to march Monday along the Tunisian capital's main boulevard despite a ban on demonstrations there. Some of the protesters hurled bricks in response...
Yemen's newly appointed president fired several old-regime figures and relatives of the former leader in a major shake-up of the country's military Friday, a move meant to show he was making good on promises of reforms in the wake of his...
BAMAKO, Mali — Mali's Tuareg rebels, who have seized control of the country's distant north in the chaotic aftermath of a military coup in the capital, declared independence Friday of the Azawad nation.
"We, the people of the...
MOGADISHU, Somalia — An explosion Wednesday at a ceremony at Somalia's national theater killed at least 10 people including two top sports officials in an attack by an Islamist group on a site that symbolized the city's attempt to rise...
YANGON, Myanmar — She struggled for a free Myanmar for a quarter-century, much of it spent locked away under house arrest. Now, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose nonviolent campaign for democracy at home transformed her into a global icon...
YANGON, Myanmar — Supporters of Myanmar's opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi erupted in euphoric cheers Sunday after her party said she won a parliamentary seat in a landmark election, setting the stage for her to take public office for the...
BAMAKO, Mali — The junior officer who overthrew Mali's democratically elected leader earlier this month and dissolved the nation's constitution made a public U-turn on Sunday, declaring amid enormous international pressure that he was...
ISTANBUL — Participants at a conference on Syria say Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries are creating a multimillion-dollar fund to pay salaries to members of the rebel Free Syrian Army and soldiers who defect from the regime and join...
JERUSALEM — Israel's deputy foreign minister says an annual protest Palestinians mounted over the weekend is "political terrorism."
Danny Ayalon spoke Saturday in Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv. He said Land Day protests are "a...
The Muslim Brotherhood is likely to select People’s Assembly Speaker Saad al-Katatny to run for president, should it field a candidate, sources from the group told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Katatny, along with the group’s deputy supreme guide...
