An influential league of California cities is opposing a bill that would allow people to rest in public areas — a position that homeless activists argue is consistent with the group’s history of supporting abuses against marginalized groups. The Right…

In a rare prisoner swap, a hard-line Syrian rebel group has released 25 women and children to Syrian government fighters in exchange for one of their captive commanders, a monitoring group said on Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…

Al-Shabab gunmen attacked a college campus in the town of Garissa in northeast Kenya on Thursday, killing at least 147 people in a bloody attack on students, authorities said. Masked men burst into the Garissa University College in the early…

Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death a secular blogger in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Monday, the second attack in five weeks on a critic of religion in the South Asian nation. Authorities said Washiqur Rahman was killed on a busy…

As Yemen plunges deeper into chaos, Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra describes the key players in the civil conflict.

High level talks this week aim to result in lifting of travel restrictions on diplomats and reopening of embassies.

Move to boost cooperation and information-sharing in the wake of deadly attacks and arrests across Europe.

Dozens more hostages still in hands of attackers, who are being pushed back towards Nigeria by government forces.

Nigeria’s neighbours take up the fight against the armed group after reported massacre.

Police say bombing in Potiskum, a frequent target of Boko Haram attacks, has killed four people and wounded dozens more.