Iraq's elite counter-terrorism force targeted Daesh (ISIS) holdouts Thursday in the northern region of Hamreen, including a media center, more than a year after the country declared Daesh vanquished. Although they no longer hold territory, Daesh sleeper cells were believed to be...

Strongmen in the Middle East and North Africa will be eyeing warily popular protests, fed by frustration with living standards and an elite perceived as corrupt, that helped push veteran Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and now Sudan?s Omar al-Bashir from power. While recent events...

Germany on Thursday backed a UN call for a humanitarian ceasefire in Libya in order to prevent an escalation in the country towards a full-scale civil war.  “UN special envoy Salame has called for a humanitarian ceasefire, and we fully support this,” German Foreign Minister Heiko...

Egypt’s Interior Ministry on Thursday announced that 11 armed attackers were killed in the country's northeastern Sinai region. In a written statement, the ministry said clashes had erupted between security forces and an armed group in the Al-Arish city of North Sinai. Egyptian...