(The New Arab)- Egypt's Islamic State group affiliate claimed responsibility for the murder of a general in the North Sinai region on Friday. Brigadier General Hisham Mahmoud Abu al-Azm was shot several times as he returned to his home in al-Arish by armed gunmen who later fled the scene on...

A car exploded in the Libyan city of Benghazi Friday, wounding a prominent tribal leader who recently helped eastern forces take control of major oil ports, security and medical officials said. Saleh al-Ateiwish, head of the Magharba tribe, was wounded as he left a mosque in Benghazi's Sidi...

(The Daily Star)- Income from Tunisia's tourism sector, hard-hit by extremist attacks, fell eight percent in the first nine months of 2016 compared with the same period last year, according to official figures. From January 1 to Sept. 31, tourism firms took 1.8 billion dinars ($811 million,...

(The Daily Star)-  U.S. Marines are using Super Cobra attack helicopters to mount close-range airstrikes against ISIS militants in the Libyan city of Sirte, the U.S. navy said Thursday. The gunship attacks, the first of their kind to be confirmed in over two months, were launched...