Sundan's government and a collection of Darfur rebel groups have signed a cease-fire, opening the way for political negotiations ahead of a full peace agreement. Government representative Ghazi Salah Eddin Atabani and rebel leader Al-Tijani Al-Sissi signed the truce Thursday in Doha, Qatar. Al-Sissi's Liberation ...

The Year of the Tiger has been billed as the big cat's best chance to escape extinction, but activists say poaching and government inaction are undermining a campaign to double the number of wild tigers. Just 3,200 tigers are believed to survive in the jungles of Asia and the forests of Russia's Far East, down from an ...

More than 300 reporters for Islam Online camped out in their Cairo offices on Wednesday in protest at alleged efforts by the management in Qatar to assume editorial control of the Islamic website. The Qatari-based website, which has its editorial offices in Egypt, was founded by popular exiled Egyptian cleric Yusef al-Qardawi and posts news items as well as sections ...