A Tunisian passenger train smashed into a semi-trailer truck racing to cross the tracks early Tuesday morning, killing 18 people as two carriages derailed. At least 86 people were injured when the speeding train hit the truck at 6:30 a.m. outside the town of Fahs, 60 kilometers (37 miles)...

ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack on a checkpoint in central Tunisia that killed three policemen, according to a statement carried on a jihadi social media account used by the group. The policemen were killed in clashes in Sidi Bouzid during an attack Monday in which militants tried...

Turkey's prime minister said on Tuesday he would not tolerate any attempt to undermine President Tayyip Erdogan's authority during the AK Party's talks to form a coalition government. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said his ruling AK Party, which lost its overall majority for the first time...

A Libyan militant group appeared to deny reports that a U.S. strike had killed veteran Algerian Islamist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, in a statement published on Twitter. Libya's government said on Sunday that Mokhtar, blamed for a deadly assault on an Algerian gas field and a major...