Mohamed Morsi  did not look like a man who had just spent four months in a secret prison with barely any contact with the outside world. Dressed in a dark suit and no tie, and still full of figure, he did not even look like a prisoner. And he tried not to sound like one, either....

Ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi arrived at a Cairo police academy on Monday to face trial in what opponents of the army-backed government say is part of a campaign to crush his Muslim Brotherhood and revive a police state. It is the second time in just over two years that an...

Tunisia's ruling Islamist Ennahda party and the opposition have failed to reach an agreement on appointing a new prime minister, with both sides pledging to continue negotiations. After an unsuccessful meeting on Saturday morning, the parties sat down behind closed doors again at around...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Egypt on Sunday for the first time since the army toppled the country's first freely elected president on July 3, state news agency MENA said. It said the visit to Egypt, whose alliance with the United States has come under strain, would only...