Paul Schemm

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Algeria scours Sahara for 5 missing foreigners

Aomar Ouali, Paul Schemm · January 22, 2013 12:00 am

In this undated image released Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013, by BP petroleum company, showing the Amenas natural gas field in the eastern central region of Algeria, where Islamist militants raided and took hostages Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013. Islamist militants from Mali attacked the Amenas natural gas field partly operated by BP in Algeria early on Wednesday, killing a security guard and kidnapping at least eight people, including English, Norwegian and Japanese nationals, an Algerian security official and local media reported. Algerian forces, later caught up with and surrounded the kidnappers and negotiations for the release of the hostages are ongoing, officials said.(AP Photo/BP)

Militants seize dozens of hostages in Algeria

Aomar Ouali, Paul Schemm · January 16, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this April 30, 2012 file photo, Algerians walk by posters for election lists displayed in front of the main post office in downtown Algiers. Two years after an itinerant Tunisian fruitseller set himself on fire to protest government injustice and ignited uprisings across the Middle East, the three nations of the Maghreb _ Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco_ have taken wildly different paths, from wholesale political change in Tunisia, to business as usual in oil-rich Algeria. (AP Photo/Paul Schemm, File)

North African nations take different reform routes

Paul Schemm · December 31, 2012 8:24 am

FILE - Morocco's main Islamic leader Abdessalam Yassine gestures in his local mosque during the Friday prayer, in this May 19, 2000 file photo, in Sale, on the outskirts of the Moroccan capital Rabat. The daughter of the founder of Morocco's most powerful religious opposition movement says that her father has died aged 84 on Thursday Dec. 13 2012. (AP Photo/Jalil Bounhar)

Large turnout at Morocco opposition figure funeral

Paul Schemm · December 14, 2012 4:36 pm

FILE - Morocco's main Islamic leader Abdessalam Yassine gestures in his local mosque during the Friday prayer, in this May 19, 2000 file photo, in Sale, on the outskirts of the Moroccan capital Rabat. The daughter of the founder of Morocco's most powerful religious opposition movement says that her father has died aged 84 on Thursday Dec. 13 2012. (AP Photo/Jalil Bounhar)

Morocco’s biggest opposition leader dies

Paul Schemm · December 13, 2012 12:52 pm

Moaz al-Khatib, head of a new coalition of Syrian opposition groups, 2nd left, and Syrian delegation attend a meeting of the Friends of the Syrian People in Marrakech, Morocco, Wednesday Dec. 12, 2012. The Syrian opposition called for "real support" and not just recognition on Wednesday, hours after the U.S. declared its new coalition was the "legitimate representative" of its country's people. Bnner behind reads: 4th meeting of the group of "Friends of the Syrian People". (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

US, Syria opposition disagree over terrorist label

Paul Schemm · December 12, 2012 9:57 pm

Bollywood wows Morocco, dreams of America

Bollywood wows Morocco, dreams of America

Paul Schemm · December 8, 2012 12:20 pm

Local people clean damages in the street a day after clashes between protestors and riot police in Siliana, Tunisia, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. The Regional Workers Union in Siliana announced a provisional halt to the strike Sunday, hours after agreeing to a deal with the central government in Tunis, the capital of this North African nation. (AP Photo / Amine Landoulsi)

Riots hint at potential chaos in Tunisia’s future

Paul Schemm · December 6, 2012 3:31 pm

Morocco dismantles cell sending jihadists to Mali

Morocco dismantles cell sending jihadists to Mali

Paul Schemm · November 24, 2012 5:07 pm

Morocco expels 19 foreigners from W Sahara

Morocco expels 19 foreigners from W Sahara

Paul Schemm · November 8, 2012 5:51 pm

In this Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 photo, a Libyan family in Tripoli walk by a mural exhibition celebrating one year since the fall of dictator Muammar Gadhafi in Tripoli, Libya. One year on, the country is still trying to overcome the legacy of one of the most erratic leaders of modern times as well as a brutal eight month struggle that left the country awash in weapons, militias and very few viable institutions of the state. (AP/Paul Schemm)

Libyans disillusioned with government amid chaos

Paul Schemm · October 28, 2012 4:00 am

Libyan witnesses recount organized Benghazi attack

Libyan witnesses recount organized Benghazi attack

Maggie Michael, Paul Schemm · October 27, 2012 4:00 am