Saudi Arabia welcomes the U.S. decision to designate Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization, Saudi state media said Tuesday. Saudi Arabia, led by a Sunni Muslim royal family, has accused Shiite Muslim Iran of interfering in its and other Middle...

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...