Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul appeared before a special terrorism court in Riyadh on Thursday, her family said, on charges U.N. human rights experts called “spurious” and they called for her immediate release. Hathloul has been held since 2018 after being arrested...

An Egyptian court on Thursday opened the trial of Mahmud Ezzat, interim supreme leader of outlawed Islamist movement the Muslim Brotherhood, a judicial source told AFP. "The hearing was held before the State Security Court at Tora Prison" in the capital Cairo, the source said, on condition...

Forces loyal to eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar on Thursday said they had released a Turkish-owned ship, after seizing it over the weekend in Libyan waters. Haftar's high command "released the Mabrooka, flying a Jamaican flag, after inspecting it and completing its investigation...

 France's foreign minister said during a visit to Doha on Thursday that his country's policies against extremism had been misrepresented and were not Islamophobic despite facing fierce criticism. Paris has faced criticism for draft legislation presented as clamping down on Islamist...