United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The United Nations Security Council voted Wednesday to endorse an agreement between rival Libyan political factions to form a government of national unity. The 15-nation body gave its support to the deal signed last week in the...

Tunisia said on Monday it has dismantled a cell in the northern region of Bizerte recruiting women to marry militants fighting abroad and has made four arrests. The interior ministry said in a statement that anti-terrorist units led the operation to bust the “takfiri” radical Sunni Muslim...

One of the would-be chairmen of Libya's $67 billion sovereign wealth fund said Monday that it would be wrong to unfreeze the fund's assets following last week's agreement to form a national unity government. AbdulMagid Breish, one of two rival chairmen of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA),...

Former Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki has warned of a "catastrophic" situation in his country, plagued by poverty and extremists, as he launches a new party a year after his election defeat. The 70-year-old neurologist applied to form the new grouping Thursday, the fifth anniversary of the...