Libyan pro-government forces said they seized control Aug. 16 of another central district of Sirte as they tried to flush out the last Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters in the coastal city. Dozens of U.S. air strikes this month have helped to weaken ISIL’s hold on …

The visiting Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukry said on Tuesday that his country will help Lebanon to overcome its political crisis. “We will provide the needed support to help Lebanon out of its political crisis,” Shukry said after separate meetings with Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Tammam Salam and …

At least 42 civilians have been killed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official said on Sunday, in what the government described as a massacre in revenge for military operations in the area. Three days of national mourning have been declared following Saturday night’s mass killing, the …