Flights transporting Yemeni medical patients from rebel-held areas continued Saturday when a second plane carrying 24 patients took off from Sanaa bound for Jordan's capital, the U.N. health agency said. The U.N. flights, which began Feb. 3, are seen as a humanitarian breakthrough in...

Tunisia fired its ambassador to the UN Friday accusing him of failing to consult the ministry on key issues that diplomatic sources said included Washington's controversial Middle East peace plan. "Tunisia's ambassador to the United Nations has been dismissed for purely professional...

The United Nations expects eastern Libyan tribal leaders to submit by Thursday their list of conditions to reopen blocked oil terminals, UN envoy Ghassan Salame said. Libya’s oil production had dropped sharply since groups loyal to eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar began a blockade...

 Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday pardoned more than 6,000 prisoners, extending a process of clemency that has outdone in scale similar conciliatory gestures by his predecessors. Tebboune, elected in December in a vote rejected by a mass protest movement seeking the...