Tunisia will suspend passenger ferry services to northern Italy and take other measures in response to the spreading coronavirus, Health Minister Abdelatif el-Mekki said on Wednesday. Tunisia confirmed its first case of the coronavirus on Monday, a Tunisian national who had recently arrived...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said it had foiled an attack on an oil tanker off the country’s coast, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported on Wednesday. The tanker was sailing toward the Gulf of Aden when it was targeted by four boats, with one of the unmanned vessels...

Egypt executed Wednesday one of its most high-profile militant leaders, the military said, after his conviction for his role in planning scores of deadly attacks against the country's security forces. Hisham al-Ashmawi, a former Egyptian special forces officer turned Islamic militant, was...

The forces of Libya’s internationally recognized government will shift from a defensive to an offensive stance against the militia of warlord Khalifa Haftar, said the government's interior minister on Tuesday. Speaking on Libyan TV channel 218, Fathi Bashagha said the Government of...