The appointment of upper house chairman Abdelkader Bensalah accords with Algeria’s constitution but many people oppose him because he is part of a ruling caste that has dominated Algeria since independence from France in 1962. The protest movement demands the overhaul of a secretive...

Algerian lawmakers began a session Tuesday to pick an interim president after Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned last week in the face of mass protests against his rule, state media reported. Under the constitution, Parliament should nominate the speaker of the upper house, Abdelkader Bensalah,...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday defended the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as protectors of Iran a day after the United States labeled the group as a foreign terrorist organization. U.S. President Donald Trump designated Iran’s Guards a foreign terrorist...

British Prime Minister Theresa May meets the leaders of Germany and France on Tuesday in a last-gasp bid to keep her country from crashing out of the European Union later this week. Her huddles with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris come...