A new museum has opened in Senegal, tracing millions of years of African history. The Museum of Black Civilizations is provoking calls for the return of African artefacts taken away by former colonial slave

Kinshasa, DRC - Not long after the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) electoral commission announced that elections scheduled for December 23 had been delayed by a week, a group of unemployed men outside a

Suicide attackers hit the headquarters of Libya's foreign ministry in Tripoli, opening fire before blowing themselves up inside, a security source has said. Reporting from Tripoli, Al Jazeera's Mahmoud Abdelwahid said a security official

ANKARA: France will not gain in any way by retaining forces to protect a Kurdish militia in Syria, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, after Paris announced it would maintain a presence despite Washington’s

ANKARA: France will not gain in any way by retaining forces to protect a Kurdish militia in Syria, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, after Paris announced it would maintain a presence despite Washington’s

ISTANBUL: Turkey and the United States have agreed to complete their agreement on the Syrian town of Manbij by the time the full US withdrawal from Syria is completed, the state-owned Anadolu news agency

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi is being criticised for calling on his compatriots to lose weight. In televised comments earlier this month, the general-turned-president railed about the number of overweight people he sees and

Hand-carved wooden mangers and statues made in Bethlehem are sought-after around the world. But the centuries-old trade is under threat because the Christian population is dwindling in the Israeli-occupied Holy Land. However, that is

Steady loud booms rupture the looping noise of the waves lapping the coast of Pandeglang province on Indonesia's Java island. The thumping sound could easily be mistaken for the wind - but it's not.

MUST-SEE PROGRAMMES The Crusades: An Arab Perspective Shock: The First Crusade and the Conquest of Jerusalem Background to the holy wars and the First Crusade's conquest of Jerusalem, a holy city for Jews, Christians