Around 3,000 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya on Sunday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, the Italian coastguard told AFP. "After some calm days, migrants are arriving in large numbers, taking advantage of a window of favourable weather," said a coastguard...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will make his first state visit to Washington during the first week of April at the invitation of U.S. President Donald Trump, Egyptian state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram reported on Sunday. The trip will be Sisi's first U.S. state visit since being...

Morocco’s king Friday appointed a new prime minister to end a political deadlock that left the North African country without a government for five months, the royal court said. King Mohammad VI named Saadeddine Othmani, a former foreign minister who belongs to the Islamist Justice and...

Gunmen opened fire in the Libyan capital on Friday as hundreds of people demonstrated against the presence of militias in Tripoli, where armed groups are key power brokers, witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of casualties and the identities of the gunmen were not clear, but the...