By AFP/Tom BARFIELDCountries and economic blocs around the world are at different stages of regulating artificial intelligence, from a relative "Wild West" in the United States to highly complex rules in the European Union.Here are some key points ab...

By AFP/Danny KEMPPresident Donald Trump revealed an extraordinary plan Tuesday for the United States to take over the Gaza Strip, resettle Palestinians in other countries -- seemingly whether they wanted to leave or not -- and turn the territory into...

By AFP/Eric RANDOLPHThe conflict between Rwanda-backed forces and the DR Congo is often presented as a struggle to control the valuable minerals that power global electronics.But the focus on "conflict minerals" may obscure other drivers of the viole...

By AFP/Tony Gamal-GabrielThe ousting of Bashar al-Assad ended decades of iron-fisted rule, but despite power now resting in Ahmed al-Sharaa's hands, Syria faces a fragile transition amid territorial and governance challenges.Military commanders appoi...

By AFP/Tony Gamal-GabrielHayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one of the darkest chapters of the Assad clan's rule."I've never really talked about that, it was a secre...

By AFP/Cecile FeuillatreFrance waged a war marked by "extreme violence" during Cameroon's fight for independence in the late 1950s, historians said in the latest officially commissioned study grappling with Paris's colonial past released last Tuesday...

By AFP/Saleh Hamad with Louis Baudoin-LaarmanStepping off a bus with two dozen other released Palestinian prisoners on Saturday after 23 years imprisonment in Israel, Ata Abdelghani had more than his freedom to look forward to.The 55-year-old was als...

By AFPThe United Nations warned on Friday that humanitarian needs in Gaza remained "immense" despite an increased flow of aid into the Palestinian territory following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.The UN's World Health Organization (WHO) and...

By AFP/Callum PATONThe United Nations said Thursday that its aid agency UNRWA would continue working in all Palestinian territories, including east Jerusalem, even as Israel cut ties with the organisation.After Israel accused UNRWA of providing cover...

By AFP/Lisa GoldenWeeping, Fairuz Shalish grasps the red earth at an unmarked grave in Syria that she believes may hold her son, one of tens of thousands of people who vanished under ousted president Bashar al-Assad.Thousands poured out of the countr...

By AFP/Jay Deshmukh and Callum PatonA freed ex-freedom fighter received a hero's welcome in the occupied West Bank on Thursday after chaos during a Gaza hostage release briefly delayed the third Israel-Hamas exchange under a ceasefire deal.At around...

By AFP/Mussa HATTARThey have lived for years in Zaatari, the world's biggest refugee camp for Syrians, but many are unsure they want to return home from Jordan even after the ouster of former president Bashar al-Assad.They fear the security situation...