Algerian media said Monday there was very little chance a presidential election will be held as planned on July 4, after only two candidates - both little known - submitted their candidacies. "The election ... will without any doubt be postponed or cancelled," the francophone El Watan daily...

A Libyan official and residents say heavy clashes are slowly nearing the center of Libya's capital, Tripoli, as forces loyal to the military commander Khalifa Haftar battle to seize power. Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army launched an offensive last month to take Tripoli from...

A leader of Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Sunday it had resumed drone strikes deep inside Saudi Arabia this month in response to what he called the Saudi-led coalition’s spurning of “peace initiatives” by his group. Mohammed Ali al-Houthi dismissed Saudi accusations...

Saudi Arabia Sunday shot down a bomb-laden drone deployed by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen to attack an airport in the kingdom, state media reported. The Saudi air force intercepted and destroyed the drone that targeted Jizan airport, close to the southern border with Yemen, the...