Hassan al Turabi, a graduate of Khartoum University School of Law and of the Sorbonne, became a leader of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1960s. When Gen. Jafa'ar Nimeiri took power in a ...

KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudan (search) detained 18 military officers and opposition members, including the former Islamic fundamentalist Hassan Turabi (search), for planning to stage a coup, the defense ...

KHARTOUM, Sudan — A turbaned Hassan Turabi sinks back into a large, plush sitting-room sofa, his stockinged feet barely touching the floor. It’s hard to comprehend that this aging former law professor ...

The loosely wrapped turban and flowing white gown of a Nile farmer belie the advanced degrees in philosophy from the University of London and law from the Sorbonne. But then Hassan Turabi has long ...

Hassan al-Turabi, the Sudanese Islamist leader who died on Saturday, was an outspoken veteran politician who was in and out of jail over a career spanning some four decades. The 84-year-old died of a ...

KHARTOUM, June 30, 2005 (Sudan Tribune) — Sudanese prominent Islamist Hassan Turabi, detained last year on suspicion of plotting a coup, was freed today. Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, ...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan will see an economic crisis after the south secedes in July that could lead to protests and instability as inflation gets worse, opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi said on ...

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Hassan Turabi, a former Islamic power broker who once called the United States "the incarnation of the devil" and said he regarded Osama bin Laden as a hero, was detained by ...

Sudanese security forces arrested Sudan's top Islamist opposition leader overnight after he called for a Tunisia-style uprising in the country, family members said Tuesday. Hassan Turabi and his ...

KHARTOUM, May 17 (Reuters) - Sudan will see an economic crisis after the south secedes in July that could lead to protests and instability as inflation gets worse, opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi ...