Unidentified gunmen in southern Libya on Monday abducted two Italian nationals and a Canadian working for an Italian airport maintenance company, according to a local official. "The abducted individuals were doing maintenance on the city’s airport," Qomani Mohamed Saleh, mayor of Libya’s...

Tunisia has extended the current state of emergency for another month, the Tunisian Presidency has announced. A statement said after consulting the premier and head of the national assembly on national security issues, President Beji Caid Essebsi decided to extend the state of emergency from...

An Egyptian court slapped Saturday a suspect with a 15-year jail term for links with Daesh group. The Cairo Criminal Court jailed the suspect, a driver, for fighting alongside Daesh militants in Syria, a judicial source said on condition of anonymity because he was unauthorized to speak to...

An Egyptian court on Saturday upheld a freeze on the assets of five human rights activists and three non-government organizations. An investigating magistrate had ordered the freeze in March pending approval from the court. “The court approved the order to freeze the assets of the five...