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An Egyptian delegation arrived Monday in Damascus to “support President Bashar al-Assad in his war against extremism,” reported Syrian state-owned…

BEIRUT — Turkey sealed its border with Syria to trucks on Wednesday, cutting off a vital supply line to the embattled nation…

GENEVA  — The International Committee of the Red Cross says it now considers the conflict in Syria a civil war,…

BEIRUT — Security forces killed at least 10 people in fighting across Syria on Tuesday, activists said, in a 14-month-old…

South Sudanese forces were continuing a pullout from Sudan's main Heglig oilfield on Saturday, an official said, as US President…

Sudan's parliament branded South Sudan an "enemy" on Monday and demanded the army swiftly recapture a disputed oil-producing region, as…

Egyptian experts have dismissed the ruling military council’s warnings of a secret plot to destroy the state, calling it an…

SIRTE, Libya - Libyan fighters have overrun the last positions of Muammar Qadhafi loyalists holding out in the city of…

SIRTE, Libya - Libyan government forces brought more tanks into the city of Sirte on Friday to try to break…

MONROVIA - Liberia's election campaign wraps up on Sunday after being rattled by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's Nobel Peace Prize win,…