Rare small protests broke out on Friday in Cairo and other Egyptian cities calling for the removal of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi but police quickly dispersed them, AFP journalists reported. Dozens of people joined night-time demonstrations around Tahrir Square - the epicentre of the...

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis will stop targeting Saudi Arabia with missile and drone attacks if its adversaries targeting Yemen do the same, a Houthi official said on Friday according to the group’s Masirah TV. Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the Houthi political office, said the group...

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched Friday in the center of Algiers in the first significant test of the months-old protest movement since the government called an election for December. They were marching despite several high profile arrests of opposition activists over the past...

 The U.S. air strike killed eight suspected Islamic State militants in southern Libya near the town of Murzuq, the U.S. military said Friday. The strike took place on Thursday, the U.S. Africa Command said in a statement. Islamic State militants lost their Libya stronghold in the...