The United Nations on Tuesday condemned the heavy shelling of Tripoli's Al Khadra General Hospital at a time when people need "functioning medical facilities," saying it was a "clear violation of international law." Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of...

Squatting with other day labourers under a bridge in Cairo, 48-year-old Yasser Nagi says he has waited in vain for two weeks for work on a construction site so he can feed his family. Egypt, like other countries, has been hit hard by the spread of the coronavirus, which has wiped out its...

An Algerian court Monday sentenced another leading figure in the country's anti-regime protest movement to one year in prison, part of a crackdown on activists, a support group said. Abdelouahab Fersaoui, who heads the civic group Youth Action Rally (RAJ), was arrested in October during a...

An Algerian court Sunday sentenced to eight months in jail a journalist who had provided images of months-long anti-government protests to foreign media, a prisoners' support group and a non-government organization said. Sofiane Merakchi, a correspondent for Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen,...