Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb blast in the Tunisian capital earlier this week, the militant group’s Amaq news agency said on Thursday. A wanted militant wearing an explosives belt blew himself up in Tunis on Tuesday after being surrounded by police, the...

Thirty-four protesters have been arrested in Algeria since June 21 for carrying the Berber flag during demonstrations – a crackdown which has further inflamed the popular movement’s antagonism towards the government. Weekly protests have continued unabated in Algeria since then...

Migrants who survived the deadly airstrike on a Libyan detention center said Thursday they had been conscripted by a local militia to work in an adjacent weapons workshop. The decision to store weapons at the facility in Tajoura, to the east of Tripoli, may have made it a target for the...

Negotiations between Sudan’s ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) and protest leaders resumed Wednesday over forming a new governing body after more than a monthlong deadlock The latest development comes after a standoff between the two sides following the June 3 killing of...