Al Shabaab insurgents have seized the town of Tardo in Somalia's central Hiiran region and are pressing on with an advance that has already displaced thousands, a military official said.

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The sheikhs in Hebron have pre-empted Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas by pursuing peace with Israel, while putting a nail in ...

A brutal and deadly Houthi militant attack on the Liberian-flagged cargo ship Eternity C in the Red Sea has killed at least ...

In the glittering coastal city of New Alamein, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud smiled for the cameras alongside Egyptian President ...