Tunisia’s Ennahda movement will back former law professor Kais Saied in a presidential election run-off, according to a leading member on Tuesday.  Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Abdellatif Mekki said the majority of members of the Shura Council, the movement’s highest authority, have...

 Seven children were among 16 people killed Tuesday in twin air strikes by the Arab coalition fighting Houthi rebels in southern Yemen, an official and a doctor said. "16 people, including women and children, were killed, and nine others injured" in a coalition air raid targeting a...

Eight babies were killed when a fire ripped through a maternity hospital in eastern Algeria before dawn on Tuesday, emergency services said. "We managed to rescue 11 babies, 107 women and 28 staff" after the 3:50 am (0250 GMT) fire in the hospital in Oued Souf, 500 kilometres (300 miles)...

Algeria’s one-time kingmaker and intelligence chief went on trial on Monday along with his successor and a brother of the ousted president for “conspiring against the army”, state radio reported. Mohamed Mediene, Bachir Tertag and Said Bouteflika were arrested this spring as the...