At least 200 gunmen allegedly armed with AK-47s and sniper rifles have surrounded the Libyan Foreign Ministry in Tripoli to demand that officials who worked for ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi be banned from senior positions in the new government, witnesses and a military official said April 28, Al Jazeera reported.

Rebels attacked the Abu Zuhour air base in northwestern Idlib province April 27, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, AP reported.

Italy formed a new government April 27 after two months of political deadlock, AP reported.

The military intelligence chief for Yemen's Hadramawt province, Col. Ahmed Abdulrazzaq, was shot and killed April 27 by suspected Islamist militants on a motorbike, a security official said, Reuters reported.

The Taliban's spring offensive will begin April 28, the group's leadership said April 27, AP reported.

Recent violence in Sunni provinces is a sign that sectarian strife is returning to Iraq assisted by "foreign plots," Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said April 27 at the International Islamic Conference for Convergence and Dialogue in Baghdad, Xinhua reported.

Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group, is not in Sudanese border areas, a spokesman for Sudan's armed forces said April 27, Sudan News Agency reported.

Protests have spread from Dhaka to Chittagong, Bangladesh, on April 27 in response to a building collapse that has killed more than 300 factory workers, Al Jazeera reported.

A bomb detonated outside a police station around 6 a.m. April 27 in Benghazi, extensively damaging the building but causing no injuries, Reuters reported.

A bomb killed at least six people and injured more than a dozen when it exploded April 26 outside the election office of Bashir Jan, a candidate for the secular Awami National Party, in Karachi's western Mominabad neighborhood, AFP reported.