Conservative political outsider Kais Saied has won Tunisia’s presidential election by a landslide taking 72.71 percent of the votes, the North African country’s electoral commission said Monday. Saied garnered 2.7 million votes against one million received by his rival business...

Saudi Arabian forces have taken over control of Yemen's southern port of Aden as part of efforts to end a power struggle between the Yemeni government and southern separatists, four sources familiar with the matter said. Last week the United Arab Emirates, Riyadh's main partner in an...

Independent candidate Kais Saied won a clear victory in Sunday’s presidential election in Tunisia, two exit polls projected, although no official results had yet been announced. Saied, a retired law professor with conservative social views, spent barely any money on an election...

Egyptian president Abdel Fateh al-Sisi said Sunday he and Ethiopia's premier are to hold talks in Russia on a dam under construction on the Nile River that Cairo fears would cut its vital water share. "I have agreed with the Ethiopian prime minister (Abiy Ahmed) to meet in Moscow and...