Forces belonging to the internationally-recognized government of Libya reached the El Sharara oil field on Sunday, a Tripoli-based government source said. The North African nation’s biggest field is a focus of the conflict between the Tripoli-based government and a rival administration...

A record number of people want to run for president of Algeria in the country's April election, amid growing uncertainty about whether incumbent Abdelaziz Bouteflika, infirm since a 2013 stroke, is fit for yet another term after two decades in charge of this gas-rich North African nation....

Eastern Libyan forces loyal to commander Khalifa Haftar carried out four air strikes near the El Feel oilfield, a field engineer told Reuters on Saturday. The strikes were warnings directed at rival commander Ali Kennah who was inside the compound at the time of the strikes, he said....

Algeria’s ruling party on Saturday officially nominated incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run for a fifth term in office in the April 18 polls. "I announce that the National Liberation Front (NLF) has nominated Bouteflika to run in the coming presidential election," NLF...

Morocco has recalled its ambassador to Saudi Arabia after a Saudi television channel reportedly broadcast a report “challenging Morocco’s territorial integrity”. Ambassador Mustafa al-Mansouri told Morocco’s pro-government 360 website on Friday: “I was recalled from Riyadh to take part in...

At least four people were killed Friday after clashes erupted between forces loyal to Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar and “Chadian mercenaries” in the southern town of Ghadduwah, according to a local security source. After Haftar’s forces captured the town, which is located south...

The main ally of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's ruling party said Thursday it hoped the ailing incumbent would seek a fifth term in office in April polls. The National Rally for Democracy (RND) "looks forward to the announcement of the candidacy" of Bouteflika, party chief and...

Security agents briefly detained a senior leader of Sudan's main opposition party Wednesday, her family said, as authorities pressed on with a crackdown on anti-government protests that have rocked the country. Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi, deputy chief of the Umma party, had been taken away...

Sudanese security forces Wednesday detained Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi, the daughter of a senior opposition leader who was Sudan's last democratically elected prime minister, her family said. Two security vehicles arrived at Mariam's home Wednesday morning and took her away, her sister Rabah...

Twelve people have been killed in floods after heavy rain lashed northern parts of Saudi Arabia this week, the civil defense agency said Wednesday. Ten died in the northwestern city of Tabuk and one each in the holy city of Medina and in northern border areas, the agency said in a...

Eight civilians were killed and 30 others wounded in a "shocking" bomb attack against a centre for displaced people in Yemen, the UN said Sunday. The bombing hit the centre in the Haradh district in the northwestern province of Hajja on Saturday, according to the UN humanitarian coordinator...

A number of militants were killed in an airstrike in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, according to the Egyptian military on Sunday. The airstrike targeted a “terrorist outpost” in the northern Sinai Peninsula, military spokesman Colonel Tamer Rifai said in a statement. He said a number...

TUNIS: The trial reopened Friday of suspects in the deadly jihadist attack on the Tunisian capital's Bardo museum in 2015, with the hearing relayed by video to Paris for French victims' families. Several of the suspects in the attack that left 22 dead testified as the trial started in...

Sudan's main opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi on Friday called for President Omar al-Bashir to step down, throwing his support behind anti-government demonstrators after weeks of deadly protest. "This regime has to go immediately," Mahdi told hundreds of worshippers at a mosque in Omdurman,...

Sudanese police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters trying to march on the presidential palace in Khartoum as anti-government demonstrators raised pressure on President Omar al-Bashir to resign with calls for nationwide rallies on Thursday. The east African nation has been rocked by...

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president in a defiant speech Wednesday before masses of anti-government demonstrators who took to the streets to demand President Nicolas Maduro’s resignation. Guaido immediately drew recognition from the Trump...

Moroccan security forces have dismantled a suspected Daesh cell in the North African country, according to the Interior Ministry on Wednesday.  In a statement, the ministry said 13 suspects had been arrested for links to the Daesh terrorist group.  The suspects, aged between...

At least five members of Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group were killed in a “shootout” with Egyptian security forces, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday. According to a ministry statement, the five slain Brotherhood members had been “planning to carry out a series of terrorist...

The Algerian military has discovered a weapons cache containing six missiles near its borders with Mali and Niger, the Defense Ministry said Monday. "During search operations in the southern Tamanrasset province, an arms cache was discovered containing six BM-21 Grad missiles," the ministry...

Sudanese police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters planning to march on parliament Sunday, as President Omar al-Bashir insisted demonstrators who died in anti-government rallies were not killed by security forces. Deadly protests which erupted on December 19 after a government...