By AFPEl Salvador's legislature on Wednesday extended a state of emergency for 30 days, a measure taken as part of President Nayib Bukele's "war" against gang-related violence, which has seen at least 61,000 arrests.The measure extends "the emergency...

By AFPEleven people, four of them security personnel, have been killed in growing protests over the death of a young woman in morality police custody, Iranian news agencies reported Thursday.Three militiamen were stabbed or shot dead after they had b...

By AFPEritrean authorities have called on their armed forces to mobilise in response to the renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia, the British and Canadian governments said.The return to combat last month shattered a March truce and dashed hopes of p...

By AFPUN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday called for "restraint" in Iraq and asked all parties to "take immediate steps to de-escalate the situation" as Baghdad's Green Zone descended into chaos, according to his spokesman.The secretary-general "has...

By AFPDozens of supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Monday stormed the Republican Palace, a ceremonial building inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone of government buildings, a security source said.Angry protesters "entered the Republ...

By AFPNine people have been killed in clashes in southern Chad between herder and farmer communities, the local governor said on Monday.The violence broke out on Friday at a small village near Mengalang in Eastern Logone province, about 500 kilometre...

By AFPSecurity forces in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region fired tear gas and rubber-coated bullets Saturday to disperse anti-government protesters and briefly detained seven opposition lawmakers, an AFP journalist and an official said.The oppositio...