AQIM confirms death of Abu Zeid

India has offered to help Libya draft its new democratic Constitution, even as the North African country's government promised to look into the issue of financial losses suffered by Indian companies during the uprising against Colonel Muammer Gadhafi's regime ...

After years of trying to discipline him, the leaders of al Qaida's North African branch sent one final letter to their most difficult employee. In page after scathing page, they described how he didn't answer his phone when they called, failed to turn in his ...

Spared the violence and instability of its North African neighbors, Morocco is looking to lure even more tourists to its beaches, cities and mountains to make up for those kept home by Europe's

US President Barack Obama today nominated Anthony Foxx, the African-American mayor of the booming North Carolina city of Charlotte as his new transportation secretary.

New Delhi: On August 4, 1782, a ship Grosvenor hit a reef on the Pondoland coast of South Africa, north of the mouth of the Umzimvubu River. The shipwreck was close to the place where the Portuguese ship, São João, had gone down more than two ...

Battered by a French-led military campaign in Mali, Al Qaedas North African arm is trying something new to stay relevant: Twitter. The PR campaign by the terror network seeks to tap into social grievances and champion mainstream causes ...

Al-Qaida's North African wing AQIM said it had killed a French hostage captured in northern Mali two years ago, a news agency has reported.

The al-Qaeda-linked North African warlord Abou Zeid was killed in combat with French troops in Mali in February, France said on Saturday, ending weeks of uncertainty about whether one of the groups leading commanders was dead. In a statement Saturday the ...

UNITED NATIONS, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Libya's democratic transition is bound to be difficult, but the North African country could benefit from a national political dialogue on the way forward, a senior UN envoy said Tuesday. "The political and ...