Royal Dutch Shell has lifted a cargo of 600,000 barrels of crude oil from Libya's Zueitina port, its first from the war-torn north African country in 5 years, two industry sources told Reuters on Saturday. "Libya is a significant resource holder and Shell International Trading and Shipping...

An elite forces unit linked to the army that controls much of eastern Libya has snubbed international efforts to bring to justice one of its senior officers for allegedly executing dozens of prisoners. The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday for Mahmoud...

Algeria's president has named Ahmed Ouyahia as prime minister, replacing Abdelmadjid Tebboune after just three months in the job, the president's office said Tuesday. The statement from President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's office gave no reason for the change. Ouyahia, 65, has already served...

Spain says around 700 migrants have tried to storm the border crossing between Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta and Morocco, but none managed to make it across. The Interior Ministry's office in Ceuta said the migrants also tried to scale the six-meter-tall barbed-wire fences around...

Daesh (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for an attack on a patrol car on Wednesday that killed four Egyptian policemen in North Sinai, the militant group's AMAQ news agency reported on Thursday. Authorities in Arish, the capital of North Sinai province, were on the hunt for gunmen who fired...

Egypt is curtailing access to ration cards used by three-quarters of the country's 93 million people to buy subsidized food items, the latest move in the government's ambitious economic reform plan. A government decree going into effect on Wednesday denies access to the cards to people...

Tunisian security forces have killed two suspected extremists during an operation in a mountainous area near the Algerian border, the national guard said on Wednesday. A third suspect was critically wounded in the operation launched on Tuesday evening on Mount Birinou in the Kasserine...

A blast hit worshippers leaving a mosque in the east Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, apparently targeting a key tribal ally of eastern based commander Khalifa Haftar for a second time, security and medical officials said. The explosion wounded at least seven people, a medical official...

Egypt's state-run news agency says a policeman and a civilian have been killed in a drive-by shooting attack. MENA says two gunmen opened fire from a car in the town of Asna, just south of the ancient city of Luxor, the previous evening. Friday's report cited an Interior Ministry...

 The commander of Libya's self-styled national army in the east has ordered naval bases to confront any vessel entering the country's territorial waters without military permission. A statement released by the forces of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar Wednesday says the command was...

The Algerian army on Monday killed six extremists during an ongoing security operation west of Algiers, the defence ministry said. Weapons and ammunition were also recovered, it said. The six suspects were killed in the Safsafa area near Tipaza, 70 kilometres west of Algiers, according...

Morocco's King Mohammed VI has pardoned dozens of people arrested in recent protests in a northern region and blamed the failure of local officials to quickly implement development projects for stoking public anger. It was his first public address since the start of protests in October over...

An Egyptian man who stabbed three foreign tourists to death and wounded three more earlier this month at a Red Sea resort had tried to join Daesh (ISIS), according to a police investigation, two security sources said on Sunday. Officials say Abdel Rahman Shaban Abokorah killed two German...

 A committee tasked with writing a constitution for Libya voted on Saturday in favor of a draft, paving the way for parliament to approve a referendum and causing an uproar among opponents. Critics, including secessionists and people in favor of the country's 1951 constitution, called...

Libya's U.N.-backed unity government chief has denied that an agreement has been struck with Rome to deploy Italian vessels in Libyan waters to combat human trafficking. Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj "denies having asked Italy to send naval vessels into Libya's territorial waters ... or...

Human Rights Watch said that activists in western Libya were physically attacked and threatened by armed groups, some affiliated with U.N.-backed government based in the country's capital, Tripoli. The statement by the New York-based watchdog on Thursday says that Libyan "authorities seem...

Libya's coastguard rescued an estimated 278 migrants including women and children Monday off the shores of two different towns west of the capital Tripoli, a spokesman said. The coastal towns to the west of Tripoli - Zawiya, Sabratha, and Zuwarah - are common departure points for migrants...

The prime minister of Libya's internationally-recognized government has decried a religious edict issued by clerics affiliated with a rival government that bans the Ibadi, a Muslim sect to which hundreds of thousands of Libya's Amazigh adhere. Fayez Serraj warned of "endangering social...

Egypt's state-run news agency says gunmen have attacked a three-car police convoy on the main Cairo-to-Fayoum road killing one policeman and injuring three others. MENA quoted an Interior Ministry statement late Thursday as saying the gunmen fired at the last car from plantation land...

A Tunisian court has banned the US film "Wonder Woman" which stars an Israeli actress, more than a month after it had been scheduled to open at cinemas in the Arab state, a legal source said Wednesday. Lebanon has also banned Wonder Woman, on the grounds of a long-standing boycott of Israel....