Islamist militant gunmen opened fire on a Tunisian customs team near the Algerian border, killing one customs agent and wounding three more, a security source said on Monday. The attack on a customs vehicle late on Sunday was in Bouchbka, in central Kasserine province, where...

Bahrain has detained a former member of parliament on charges of financing militants, state news agency BNA said late on Sunday, the latest in a series of arrests of opposition figures. The agency did not name the man but quoted the director of criminal investigations as saying...

Lebanese security forces fired water cannon at protesters demonstrating against the government near Prime Minister Tammam Salam's offices in Beirut on Sunday, live television pictures showed. Protesters threw projectiles at a line of riot police blocking a road to the Grand Saray...

Fingerprint evidence shows that the gunman overpowered by passengers on a train in France is a Morrocan known to European authorities as a suspected Islamist militant, according to a source familiar with the case. Two people were wounded in the struggle to subdue the...