Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and US President Donald Trump agreed Monday on the need to maintain a ceasefire in Libya and avoid an escalation between the forces fighting there, Egypt's presidency said. Sisi and Trump spoke by telephone as Egypt's parliament went into a...

Sudan's former autocratic president Omar al-Bashir, ousted amid a popular pro-democracy uprising last year, faces trial from Tuesday over the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades ago. Bashir, 76, who is already behind bars for corruption, could face the death...

The Yemeni army said on Sunday a rebel commander was killed in clashes in the southern Ad Dali' province. The army’s September Net website said Ali Mohamed Ali al-Zarqi was killed, along with a number of Houthi rebels, in the city of Qa’taba in the province. According to the...

Elyes Fakhfakh’s resignation as Tunisia’s prime minister has sparked a crisis in a country already in the throes of economic and political turmoil. He stepped down on Wednesday after less than six months in office, facing a no-confidence vote amid allegations of wrongdoing from...