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A Kenyan court on Monday charged four Somali men with "terrorism" offences for helping al Qaeda-linked militants who attacked a shopping mall in Nairobi in September, an assault that killed 67 people. The charges included offering support, providing shelter and...

Overnight shelling has taken the death toll from fighting between rival Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim groups in a northern town in Yemen to at least 100 people, a spokesman for one of the groups said on Monday. Sectarian fighting in...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praised Saudi Arabia as a "very, very important" ally on Monday as he visited the Gulf Kingdom on a mission to soothe strains in the relationship over U.S. policy on Iran, Syria and...

Ousted Egyptian leader Mohamed Mursi struck a defiant tone on the first day of his trial on Monday, chanting 'Down with military rule', and calling himself the country's only 'legitimate' president. Mursi, an Islamist who was toppled by the army...

The British government is to scrap a controversial plan to impose a £3,000 security bond on visitors from Asian and African countries, media reports say. A British Home Office spokesperson confirmed that the policy, which was due to come into...

Israel said it would not allow advanced weapons to fall into the hands of Hezbollah, after a raid on Syria that opposition sources said had hit an air force garrison believed to be holding Russian-made missiles destined for the...

The United Nations envoy to Syria said on Friday there would be no preconditions for long-delayed peace talks, an assertion likely to anger an opposition movement that says it will only attend if the goal is to remove President...

Syria's armed forces said on Friday they had captured a strategic northern town at the eastern gates of Aleppo, the former commercial hub long the scene of fierce fighting between government and rebel fighters. The town of Safira lies on...

Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud has been killed in a US drone strike, a high-ranking Taliban official has said. The militant chief, who was thought to be in his mid-30s, first came to prominence in 2007 after a number of...

Congo's army said on Thursday it was hunting rebels deep into forests and mountains along the border with Rwanda and Uganda, the last insurgent hideouts after they were driven from towns they held during a 20-month rebellion. Ugandan mediators said...