A Pakistan court on Monday granted bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over a deadly raid on a radical mosque, bringing closer his possible release after more than six months of house arrest. The ruling by an Islamabad district court means the ex-general is on bail in all the cases brought against him since his …

French and Malian forces are questioning suspects in northern Mali to find a small group of militants who carried out the killing last week of two French radio journalists, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday. Claude Verlon, 58 and Ghislaine Dupont, 51, both journalists at RFI radio, were found dead in northern Mali …

The Tunisian presidency announced Sunday it would extend the state of emergency, which has been in force since January 2011, by eight months. “The president of the republic decided to prolong the state of emergency in

Egypt’s deposed leader Mohammed Morsi has gone on trial in Cairo, telling the judge the case is illegitimate and insisting that he remains president. As he entered the courtroom on Monday, Morsi refused to remove his blue suit and put on

Four French hostages kidnapped by al Qaeda’s north African arm three years ago in Niger have been released, President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday. Pierre Legrand, Daniel Larribe, Thierry Dol and Marc Feret were kidnapped by AQIM in September 2010 while working for French nuclear group Areva and a subsidiary …

Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said on Tuesday that his country has not decided whether to participate in the Geneva II conference on Syria, though it endorses the conference. In a joint news conference with visiting Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Hoghann, Lamamra said “when the date, the agenda and …

The Greek negotiator in the decades-long dispute over the name of Macedonia has put forward a proposal to call the country “the Slavic-Albanian Macedonia.” The former Yugoslav republic’s constitutional name is “the Republic of Macedonia,” but

President Tomislav Nikolić has arrived in Moscow, where he will attend a Serbian-Russian investment forum and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nikolić will attend a business conference entitled

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad fired Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil for reportedly meeting with U.S. official in Switzerland.

Romania Oct. 28 started building a military base, which will host a U.S. ballistic missile defense system as part of the NATO system. The plan is to have the Deveselu base in southern Romania