Yemen's internationally recognised government and southern separatists are holding indirect negotiations and are close to reaching a power-sharing agreement, sources from both sides said on Monday. The two camps have been for weeks in indirect and discreet talks in Saudi Arabia's western...

Tunisia's moderate Islamist Ennahda party gained most votes in Sunday's parliamentary election, an exit poll by Sigma Conseil broadcast by state television showed. The poll showed Ennahda with 17.5% of the vote and its main rival, the Heart of Tunisia party of detained media mogul Nabil...

Polling stations closed in Tunisia on Sunday in a parliamentary election with no overwhelming favorite to emerge as the largest party tasked with forming a government. Public annoyance at years of ineffective coalitions has fueled a sense of disillusionment eight years after a revolution...

Saudi Arabia is working on removing Sudan from the United States' list of state sponsors of terrorism, a foreign ministry tweet said Sunday. The tweet comes following a visit to Riyadh by the head of Sudan's transitional sovereign council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and prime minister Abdalla...