Mahmud Jibril, the former head of the rebel government that overthrew Libyan dictator Moamer Qadhafi in 2011, died Sunday of the coronavirus, his party said. Jibril, 68, died in Cairo where he had been hospitalized for two weeks, said Khaled al-Mrimi, secretary of the Alliance of National...

 Warring factions in Yemen accused each other on Sunday of attacking an oil pipeline pumping station in the central province of Marib, where clashes have raged for weeks and displaced tens of thousands of civilians. The oil ministry of the internationally-recognized, Saudi-backed...

Morocco's King Mohammed VI has pardoned 5,654 prisoners and ordered measures to protect inmates from the coronavirus outbreak, the justice ministry said Sunday. The inmates were selected on the basis of their age, frail health, time spent in prison and good conduct, the ministry said in a...

The United Nations warned Friday that health services in conflict-plagued Libya were already fragile as the North African country recorded its first death from the novel coronavirus. Health authorities said an 85-year-old woman was confirmed to have had COVID-19 on examination after her...