Algerians vote Thursday for a new parliament likely to hand a majority to the ruling FLN party and its allies, though turnout is traditionally low for elections to a National Assembly many voters dismiss as weak. The ballot comes at a sensitive time for Algeria as the OPEC member tackles the...

A powerful local tribe in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula says it killed eight suspected ISIS fighters in battle and captured three more. The Tarabeen tribe has clashed repeatedly with a local ISIS affiliate in recent weeks, opening a new front against the insurgency raging in the northern Sinai,...

Unidentified gunmen attacked an Egyptian police convoy near the main ring road around Cairo, killing three officers and wounding five others, the interior ministry said early Tuesday. "Armed elements riding in two vehicles approached a moving security convoy" around 11:45 pm Monday, the...

Mohamed Talbi, a prominent Tunisian academic and specialist on Islam, died early Monday aged 95, the country's culture ministry said. Talbi, who was born in Tunis in 1921, was one of the "founders of the modern Tunisian university" and a "great intellectual" figure, the ministry said in a...