A fresh appeal for the release of jailed media mogul Nabil Karoui who has a reached a runoff in Tunisia's presidential polls was turned down on Wednesday, his lawyer said. "The judge has refused to give a ruling, saying it was not in his jurisdiction," Kamel Ben Messoud told AFP, after...

Yemen's Houthi group, which claims it was behind the weekend attack on Saudi oil facilities, said Wednesday it has dozens of sites located in the United Arab Emirates listed as possible targets for attacks. A military spokesperson of the Iran-aligned organization said the Houthis have new...

Algeria's military has ordered police to block protesters from outside the capital entering Algiers, the army chief said Wednesday, taking a tougher line after months of mass anti-regime rallies and ahead of December elections to fill a presidential vacuum. "I have instructed the national...

Twenty Yemeni pupils listen to their teacher with textbooks balanced in their laps as they sit under trees in their southern village, where the school building remains unfinished. In war-torn Yemen, the students of Al-Kashar began a new school term without a building, tables or chairs....