French President Francois Hollande on Thursday held talks at the Elysee Palace with Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal mainly on bilateral relations as well as the security situation in the Sahel-Sahara region. Sellal is here at the head of a large delegation to take part in a summit with French …

In the dusty badlands along its disputed border with Afghanistan, Pakistan is carving out a massive trench to keep out separatists, smugglers and militants in an attempt to bring order to a lawless, tribal region. But like the Berlin Wall or Israel’s West Bank barrier, the planned 485-km trench is …

 Foreign ministers of NATO member states and Ukraine condemned Tuesday Russia’s military build-up in Crimea and its alleged deliberate destabilization efforts in eastern Ukraine. ”We condemn Russia’s military build-up in Crimea, as well as the worsening human rights situation on the Crimean peninsula,” an official statement said.