Sudan’s army deployed around its Khartoum headquarters Monday as thousands of protesters urging the military to back calls for leader Omar al-Bashir’s resignation defied tear gas to demonstrate for a third day, witnesses said. “When the army is here, we have no fear,” protesters flashing victory signs chanted as military ...
Forces of Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar said Sunday they had carried out their first air strike on a suburb of Tripoli, where loyalist fighters announced a “counteroffensive” to defend the capital. Colonel Mohamed Gnounou told reporters that the counteroffensive, dubbed “Volcano of Anger”, was aimed at “purging all Libyan cities ...