Around 1,000 people protested Friday in central Baghdad demanding the release of an Iraqi female journalist after she was abducted by unknown gunmen. "Freedom for Afrah!" cried the demonstrators, who included many women, after Afrah Shawqi was seized Monday from her home in a southern...

Egypt's Cabinet has approved the transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia despite protests earlier this year and a court ruling the transfer unconstitutional. The state-run MENA news agency reported Thursday that President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi's government approved the deal and sent...

Tunisian ministers will meet Thursday to decide on an action plan against extremists returning from foreign battlefields, a government source said, as fears mount they could destabilize the North African country. The ministerial meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Youssef Chahed follows...

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi will pick a regulator and members of a new media council under a law passed Monday, giving the body the power to fine or suspend publications and broadcasters and give or revoke licences for foreign media. The law, approved by parliament and signed...