WAD MADANI, Sudan: Thirty-nine civilians were killed, most of them women and children, when shelling hit their homes on Tuesday in war-torn Sudan’s vast western region of Darfur, medics and witnesses said. The sources said the attack occurred in Nyala, … read more
BEIRUT: Twenty-two people including three civilians have died in clashes in Kurdish-held northeastern Syria between US-backed fighters and members of an affiliated group whose leader was arrested, a war monitor said Tuesday. “Sixteen local fighters and three members of the … read more
ALGIERS: An Algerian court on Tuesday sentenced an Algerian-Canadian researcher, as well as an Algerian journalist, each to two years in prison, one of their lawyers said. Raouf Farrah, 36, and Mustapha Bendjama, 32, were convicted of publishing classified information … read more
CAIRO: Air traffic at Syria’s Aleppo airport will resume on Tuesday following an Israeli air strike. Operations will restart at the airport at midnight (2200 GMT), Syria’s transport ministry said. An Israeli air attack put the airport out of service … read more
CAIRO: Egyptian national carrier EgyptAir announced it will operate its first direct flight from Cairo to Port Sudan starting Sept. 1, the Egyptian civil aviation ministry said on Tuesday. The decision comes after Sudanese authorities re-opened the airspace in the … read more