Investors rattled by the war in Iran have sent oil prices skyrocketing – and global governments have noticed. The world’s biggest economies are now considering emergency releases of millions of ...

KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will visit Asmara on Tuesday for talks with President Isayas Afewerki of Eritrea and a possible meeting with a key Sudanese ...

A top Iranian official warned in an exclusive CNN interview that the government is prepared for a long war with the United States, on the same day Iranians were directed to pledge their allegiance to ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

What began with joint US-Israeli strikes on various Iranian sites on February 28 has spiralled into a regional inferno.

• Escalating conflict: Trump signaled that attacks on Iran will intensify this weekend. A series of major explosions rocked Tehran late Saturday as Israel launched new strikes.

Iran is trying to erode the protective shield around US allies and installations in the Arabian Peninsula. New satellite images show us how.

CNN’s Fred Pleitgen and photojournalist Claudia Otto were the first journalists from a US network to get on the ground in Tehran. CNN operates in Iran only with government permission. He shares his ...

But across the political divide, the bombings are terrifying for many Iranians, with civilian casualities on the rise. Human rights groups have reported that more than 1,000 people have been killed by ...

As it enters its sixth day, the latest Middle East conflict continues to widen – with the US sinking an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka and Iran attacking Azerbaijan, local authorities said ...

Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi has demanded the death penalty for people who knowingly infect others with HIV/AIDS, to deter men from passing the disease to vulnerable younger women, newspapers ...

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, has an ambitious vision for the continent’s most populous nation, but hurdles stand in his way.