Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing over Scotland, which killed 270 people, has died at home in Libya, his brother said Sunday.
There are currently about 130,000 foreign troops in the country, with Americans accounting for about 90,000 of them.
North Korea has resumed construction on an experimental light water reactor, a move that could extend its capacity to produce more material for nuclear weapons, Web site 38North reported Thursday.
Following a meeting in Abuja, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has threatened renewed sanctions against a Malian military junta that overthrew the country's democratically elected government in March.
Leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council gathered in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Monday for a one-day meeting to discuss the possibility of forming a regional bloc similar to the European Union.
A Human Rights Watch report released on Monday claims NATO failed to investigation the deaths of a number of noncombatants killed in airstrikes during last year's Libyan revolution.
The government is also permitting about 500 foreign observers, including 120 from the European Union, to monitor the elections.
The U.S. oil major is preparing to sell all of its assets in one of Africa's leading producers of crude oil -- Nigeria.
Armed militia groups opened fire on the Libyan prime minister's office in the capital Tripoli Tuesday, killing at least three people and wounding several others.
Fighting between rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's forces erupted in an oil producing province in eastern Syria, residents and activists said on Sunday, the eve of a parliamentary election the authorities say shows reforms are under way.
Lockheed Martin has delivered the last of its controversial F-22 stealth fighters to the U.S. Air Force. At 400 million dollars each, it's the most expensive jet fighter ever -- but some say it's not the most capable. And some pilots are afraid of it.
A new strain of foot and mouth disease (FMD) has reached the Gaza Strip and threatens to spread further after first being detected in Egypt and Libya in February, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday.
Less than a week ahead of the presidential election, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to sue a website over articles which claimed that the slain Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi donated around $65 million to his 2007 presidential campaign.
Lebanese intelligence officers are questioning crew members of a ship that set sail from Libya and was found to be carrying a cache of weapons that supposedly were intended to supply opposition forces in Syria.
Sarkozy linked the publication of the document to the imminent elections.
After a year of revolutionary turmoil that saw tourists flee the Mediterranean hotspot in droves, Tunisia hopes 2012 will mark the start of the recovery in a sector that used to account for almost 7 percent of gross domestic product and employs 500,000 people.
Shukri Ghanem, a former prime minister and oil minister who served in Libya's government under the late Moammar Gadhafi, was discovered dead in the Danube River on Sunday, Austrian police told BBC News.
The final list of Egyptian presidential candidates was announced on Thursday, and 13 men will face off in the first free presidential elections in the country in decades.
Jordan has begun training former Libyan rebels who fought against Moammar Gadhafi as policemen as part of a program to strengthen relations between the two countries.
The Libyan National Transitional Council bans religious political parties before elections in June, angering the Muslim Brotherhood
In a conversation suffused with themes and talking points sure to resurface during the election, the commander-in-chief touched on topics as diverse as climate change, the tenor of the rhetoric on Capitol Hill and his fondness for The Daily Show and Homeland.
Syrian soldiers stormed a town east of Damascus on Sunday and rebels bombed a military convoy in the north of the country as international mediator Kofi Annan urged both sides to work with an expanded team of U.N. ceasefire monitors.
