Egypt's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared Tuesday he cannot ignore demands that he run for president, in a looming election his supporters say he is certain to win. He emerged as Egypt's most popular leader after overthrowing Mubarak's successor, Islamist president Mohamed...

An explosion killed three policemen in Bahrain during a protest in a village near the capital Manama on Monday, the Interior Ministry said, in one of the worst incidents of violence in recent months. The ministry said on its Twitter account that a group of protesters had broken...

Two Egyptian policemen were sentenced to 10 years in jail Monday for the killing of a blogger whose death rallied protesters in the 2011 revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak. The two were sentenced following a retrial for the manslaughter and torture of Khaled Said in June 2010, when they...

Tunisia's prime minister replaced most state governors on Friday, bowing to a demand from secular parties to purge Islamists From key jobs before elections this year. After a political crisis brought on by the killing of two opposition leaders last year, the ruling Islamist party...