The foreign minister of Libya's internationally recognised government congratulated the rival Fajr Libya alliance for having taken on fighters from the Islamic State group in the country. Mohamed al-Dayri was speaking a day before Libya's rival parliaments were to resume UN-sponsored...

(Reuters) - Gunmen wearing military uniforms stormed Tunisia's national museum on Wednesday, killing 17 foreign tourists and two Tunisians in one of the worst militant attacks in a country that had largely escaped the region's "Arab Spring" turmoil. Five Japanese as well as...

(Reuters) - An explosion damaged a police station in the center of Libya's capital, Tripoli, on Thursday, a witness said. The blast at the building, which is close to the foreign ministry, also damaged several cars, a Reuters reporter at the scene said. No more information was...

(Reuters) - Iraqi security forces and militias fought their way into Saddam Hussein's home city of Tikrit on Wednesday, advancing from the north and south in their biggest counter-offensive so far against Islamic State militants. In a possible response to the fighting north of...