At least five people were killed on Tuesday -- including the aide of a parliamentary speaker -- when a helicopter crashed in eastern Libya, according to a local military official. The aircraft went down in the Al-Makhili district between the eastern cities of Tobruk and Derna, the official...

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...