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Five foreigners have been evacuated and a “number” of hostages freed after being trapped by gunmen in a hotel stand-off in central Mali that’s left at least seven people dead. Officials had earlier announced that five Malian soldiers were killed, two jihadis and...

At least one person was killed in an attack early on Friday by unidentified gunmen on a hotel in central Mali frequented by United Nations peacekeepers in the West African nation, a witness and a military spokesman said. “The attackers are still inside the hotel”, the...

Soldiers late Friday surrounded a central Mali hotel where at least 10 gunmen were holed up with hostages, witnesses said, after a daylong standoff that left a number of locals, foreigners and Malian soldiers dead.

Despite losing Aden, the rebels still control large swathes of Yemen, including Sanaa which they overran last September.

However, ground fighting broke out nearly immediately in the restive city of Taiz following random shelling by Shiite Houthi rebels in three neighborhoods, they said.

“The failure of Saudi Arabia and other coalition members to investigate apparently unlawful air strikes in Yemen demonstrates the need for the United Nations Human Rights Council to create a commission of inquiry”, it said.

Aden was recently liberated from Houthi control by the Popular Resistance and last week members of Yemen’s government-in-exile began returning to the city in order to set up a rival power base to the Houthis’ in the capital Sana’a, which the group has controlled...

Yemen’s “popular resistance” forces, which support president-in-exile Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, said late Sunday that 47 civilians had been killed – and more than 140 injured – when the Shia Houthi militia shelled parts of the southern Aden province.

One of the bases reportedly retaken from the rebels was the Labuza army base in Lahj province, north of Aden, and the other was the headquarters of the 117th armored division in eastern Shabwa province some 230 kilometers (145 miles) away.

Yemeni ministers have arrived back in Aden after the government announced it had “liberated” the port city from rebel control, the interior ministry told AFP on Saturday.

Saudi-owned al Arabiya TV claimed the Houthis, who control Sanaa, have put their forces in the city on alert.

Loyalists of Yemen’s exiled president seized more ground in second city Aden on Wednesday as they pressed their biggest fightback yet against Iran-backed rebels buoyed by their recapture of the airport.

More than 11,200 people have died from Ebola since an epidemic broke out in December 2013 in neighbouring Guinea.

As reported by a recent report of the United Nations Aids agency, we have already met the target of making HIV treatment accessible to 15 million people before 2015 ends.

Saudi fighter jets pounded a police station in Al-Radhma district in the southwestern Yemeni province of Ibb after the truce came into force early Saturday, Yemen’s Saba Net news agency reported.