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Kahlan, a 12-year-old former child soldier, demonstrates how to use a weapon, at a camp for displaced persons where he took shelter with his family, in Marib, Yemen, July 27, 2018. emen’s Houthi rebels continue to recruit children into their military ranks to fight in the country’s civil war, despite an agreement with the U.N. in April 2022, to halt the practice. Two Houthi officials acknowledged to the Associated Press that the rebels have recruited several hundred children, some as young as 10, in the past two months. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

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In Yemen, child soldiering continues despite Houthi promise
By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press
Thu,06/16/22-1:06AM , 607 Reads
CAIRO (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels are still recruiting children into their military ranks to fight in the country’s grinding civil war, despite an agreement with the United Nations in April to halt the practice, Houthi officials, aid workers and residents told The Associated Press.
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Libyans celebrate February Revolution Day in Martyrs' Square in Tripoli, Libya, Feb. 18, 2022. Two separate governments are once again vying for power in Libya. It's the latest setback, reversing tentative steps toward unity in the past year, including promised elections that never materialized. Clashes in the country's capital of Tripoli last month underscored the fragility of Libya's relative peace that has prevailed for more than a year. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, File)

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Divided again, Libya slides back toward violence, chaos
By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press
Thu,06/02/22-2:06AM , 346 Reads
CAIRO (AP) — For many Libyans, clashes that erupted in the capital of Tripoli last month were all too familiar — a deja vu of street fighting, reverberating gunfire and people cowering inside their homes. A video circulated online on the day, showing a man shouting from a mosque loudspeaker “Enough war, we want our young generation!"
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This undated photo provided by the Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry on Monday, April 25, 2022, shows archeologists working in the ruins of a temple for Zeus-Kasios, the ancient Greek god, at the Tell el-Farma archaeological site in the northwestern corner of the Sinai Peninsula. Tell el-Farma, also known by its ancient name Pelusium, dates back to the late Pharaonic period and was also used during Greco-Roman and Byzantine times. (Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry via AP)

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Egypt: Ruins of ancient temple for Zeus unearthed in Sinai
By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press
Mon,04/25/22-11:45AM , 411 Reads
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian archaeologists unearthed the ruins of a temple for the ancient Greek god Zeus in the Sinai Peninsula, antiquities authorities said Monday.

The Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said in a statement the temple ruins were found in the Tell el-Farma archaeological site in northwestern Sinai.
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In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Hunter Pemberton, assigned to the USS Cole, takes part in an exercise on the Red Sea, March 29, 2022. Mohammed Abdul-Salam, Yemen's Houthi chief negotiator and spokesman, said late Friday, April 15, that the U.S. move in the Red Sea, which comes amid a cease-fire in the country's civil war, contradicts Washington’s claim of supporting the U.N.-brokered truce. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Christopher Stachyra/U.S. Navy via AP, File)

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Yemen’s rebels criticize new, US-led task force in Red Sea
By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press
Sat,04/16/22-5:35AM , 356 Reads
CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s Houthis criticized a new U.S.-led task force that will patrol the Red Sea following a series of attacks by the Iran-backed rebels in a waterway that’s essential to global trade.
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