More than 30,000 people have been displaced due to fighting near the Libyan capital, Tripoli, that has been raging since the beginning of the month, the World Health Organization said.

Forces loyal to Libya’s unity government announced yesterday a counter-attack against military strongman Khalifa Haftar’s fighters, as clashes south of the capital Tripoli intensified.

Islamic State militants have killed more than 60 Syrian regime fighters in 48 hours, a monitor said Saturday

Four Turkish soldiers and 20 armed assailants were killed on Friday in clashes between the military and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) near the border with Iraq, Turkey's defence ministry and military said.

Protest leaders are to hold talks Saturday with Sudan's military rulers who have so far resisted calls to transfer power to a civilian administration, two leading figures in the protests told AFP.

Israel yesterday struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip with tank and aircraft fire after troops were shot at on the Israeli side of the border, the army said.

Oxfam has warned that war-torn Yemen risks a "massive resurgence" of cholera, with around 195,000 suspected cases of the disease recorded so far this year.

Turkey has arrested two men suspected of spying for the United Arab Emirates and is probing if they are tied to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder, Anadolu state news agency said on Friday.

Huge crowds of protesters yesterday thronged the Sudanese capital Khartoum a week after the army’s ouster of president Omar al-Bashir, determined to complete their revolution seeking civilian rule.

The UN’s Libya envoy yesterday warned of “a widening conflagration” in the North African country, as deadly clashes spread south to a key military base. Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), based in the country’s east

The UN's Libya envoy warned Thursday of ‘a widening conflagration’ in the North African country, saying international divisions had encouraged strongman Khalifa Haftar to launch his assault on Tripoli.

Sudan’s military rulers have transferred ousted president Omar al-Bashir to prison, a family source said yesterday, as crowds of protesters flocked through Khartoum in vans and buses to join a sit-in at the army complex.