Leading European and Arab world diplomats announced potential “small steps” Thursday toward reviving Mideast peace efforts after upcoming Israeli and Palestinian elections. The officials — from the U.N., EU, Egypt, Jordan, Germany and France — did not release any specific...

Sudan's prime minister held talks with the Egyptian president in Cairo on Thursday as both nations seek to build a united front in the ongoing dispute over the controversial dam that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi...

 Libyan lawmakers confirmed a newly appointed interim government on Wednesday, in the hopes it will help unify the divided, war-wrecked North African country, and shepherd it through to elections at the end of the year. “This is a historic day,” declared parliament speaker Aguila...

Libya’s interim PM-designate Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has called for the departure of some 20,000 foreign fighters present in the country as he made the case for his proposed Cabinet lineup at parliamentary talks. “The mercenaries are a stab in our back – they must leave,” interim...