For decades, Washington has sought to prop up the government in Mogadishu, but Somalia remains a fractured state. Political ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Suspected Somali pirates have seized a Yemeni fishing boat off the Horn of Africa, authorities said late Monday. A European naval operation in the Mideast, known as ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...