As major trading highways connecting the East and the West passed through India, the subcontinent became its benefactor, ...

COTONOU, Benin (AP) — An attack by Islamic militants on military posts in northern Benin last week left at least 54 soldiers dead, the West African country's government said. Authorities had ...

Dar es Salaam. The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the rebel group known as the Congo River Alliance/March 23 Movement (AFC/M23) have agreed to a pathway toward a truce in ...

Forty-five years after the outbreak of the Berber Spring of 1980 and the savage and inhumane repression that followed, as ...

In March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. "I think the Taliban have understood ...