Senior officials from Japan and the US put in a lot of time completing a key initiative before the recent Abe-Obama summit. The foreign and defense chiefs revised their countries’ defense cooperation guidelines for the first time...

Domestic and international criticism is growing of Egypt’s court ruling against former President Mohammed Morsi. A court ruled on Saturday that the former president deserves the death penalty in connection with a mass prison break in 2011....

A bus station in Damaturu, capital of northern Nigeria’s Yobe State was hit by a bomb attack Saturday, leaving at least 7 killed, reports said.

To  put an end to rumors, Saudi Brigadier-General Ahmed al-Asiri, the coalition’s spokesperson, denied recent reports that the body of the Moroccan pilot Yassin Bahti has been found, saying that the pilot “is still missing.”

The “White Papers on Terrorism in Morocco” is one of the first documented and explorative study in an attempt to understand the phenomenon of terrorism in Morocco since its inception to the present.

King Mohammed VI examined Friday proposals on abortion he asked the departments of justice and Islamic Affairs and the National Council for Human Rights (CNDH) to prepare.

Burundian president Pierre Nkurunziza returned Friday to the capital Bujumbura after the government announced the attempted coup against the president had failed.

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China has officially opened its permanent mission to the AU headquarters here in Addis Ababa on Thursday to further strengthen its diplomatic relations with countries of the continent through the Pan Africa body.

Registation of candidates for the Oct. 25 provincial elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) began last week amid acrimony from opposition parties and civil society groups. The National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) said the...