Secretary of State John Kerry announced a “new development partnership” with Afghanistan that includes USD 800 million in aid and plans for the Pentagon to request funding for 352,000 Afghan Security Force personnel through 2017. The details were announced in a press conference where Kerry spoke alongside Secretary of Defense …

Turkey will provide a military facility in the southern province of Hatay, along with the Hirfanlı military base in the central Anatolian province of Kırşehir, for the training-equip program with the U.S. in the struggle against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a Turkish official announced.

The leaders of Ethiopia and Egypt said on Tuesday that they are hopeful talks over sharing Nile River waters will end in agreement. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi told reporters in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, where he is on an official visit, that Ethiopia and Egypt are “on the …

he United Nations envoy Bernardino Leon on Tuesday set out proposals to end the conflict between Libya’s two rival governments. Leon proposed the formation of a presidential council made up of independent personalities acceptable to all sides, the UN Support Mission in Libya said. The House of Representatives, the parliament …

Tunisia’s national museum on Tuesday delayed a planned reopening after last week’s attack on foreign tourists due to security concerns, its head of communications Hanene Srarfi said. “We have been surprised at the last minute, but the interior ministry says that for security reasons we cannot receive a large number …

One Tunisian soldier was killed and two wounded in a landmine blast late on Sunday in a central region bordering Algeria where security forces have been fighting Islamist militants, authorities said. Tunisian forces are on high alert after gunmen stormed the Bardo museum in Tunis last week, killing 20 foreign …

Somali government forces backed by African Union troops have recaptured a strategic island on the country’s south coast from Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels, officials and witnesses said Monday. A statement from the AU’s AMISON force said Kudha island, situated in the autonomous Lower Juba region and around 70 kilometres (40 miles) …

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have given orders for work on creating a free trade zone between Ukraine and Turkey to be expedited, Erdogan said in Kyiv, after talks with Poroshenko.

General Philip Breedlove, Commander of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe of NATO command operations, Sunday said that small arms shipments to Ukraine are still an option. “I do not think that any tool of the US or any other power should necessarily be off the table,” he told the Brussels …

President of the Republic of Zimbabwe and President of the African Union Robert Mugabe will start Tuesday, a three-day state visit to Algeria at the invitation of President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the presidency of the Republic said Monday in statement.