An airport security official says Egyptian authorities have banned a prominent human rights activist, who heads a center investigating police abuses, from leaving the country. Aida Seif el-Dawla, a psychiatrist and co-founder of the Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence,...

Egypt's Court of Cassation overturned on Tuesday a life sentence against deposed President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered a retrial in the case that revolves around accusations of espionage with Palestinian group Hamas. The court last week overturned a death sentence...

Forces loyal to Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar have reportedly registered major gains in eastern Libya, seizing control of most of the cities across the oil-rich region. After two years of fighting, Haftar’s self-styled "Libyan National Army" (LNA) now controls all of Libya’s...

(Al Arabiya)- Cairo’s prosecutor general said in a statement on Sunday that the country’s President Abdulfatah al-Sisi had faced two previous assassination attempts: one in Saudi Arabia and the second in Egypt. The prosecutor said two cells, one based in Saudi Arabia, were coordinating to...

Libyan Forces are poised to retake the the city of Sirte from Islamic State group fighters after six months of fighting.  Remaining IS militants in the city are positioned in a small area measuring 0.4km in the Giza neighbourhood, US and Libyan officials say.  Losing Sirte will...

The dominant armed force in the east Libyan city of Benghazi said on Thursday it had taken control of one the last holdouts of Islamist-led militias, amid clashes in which at least 13 troops were killed, according to medical officials. The self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), whose...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned 82 prisoners, mostly university students jailed for protesting, state news agency MENA said on Thursday. Sisi had promised in October to amend a protest law that human rights groups say has severely restricts protest rights and hinted at...

Out of five charges leveled against Egypt’s first freely elected president by Egypt’s post-coup government, one ruling has been overturned, one upheld, two are currently under appeal, and one is awaiting a verdict.  On Tuesday, Egypt’s highest appellate court overturned a death sentence...

Tunisian police have arrested four suspected extremists accused of plotting to carry out attacks in the capital and to assassinate prominent politicians and journalists, an interior ministry spokesman said Wednesday. The group, composed of three men and a girl, "was planning attacks against...

Egyptian authorities have taken the name of former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who fled the country after his 2012 defeat, off airport watch lists, his lawyer said, clearing the way for him to return home. Shafiq had faced various corruption charges but was either acquitted or had...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika returned home Tuesday from a trip to France where he underwent medical checks, his office said. Bouteflika suffered a stroke in 2013, weakening his mobility and forcing him to work from his residence in Zeralda, west of Algiers. The 79-year-old...

At least 15 civilians were injured on Tuesday when a car bomb rocked Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi, according to a local security source.  "A car bomb was detonated by an unidentified attacker outside Budizirah Park near the city’s eastern entrance," Interior Ministry spokesman Walid...

Two Egyptian troops were killed and ten others injured in a spate of militant attacks in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, according to a local security source. A military vehicle struck a roadside bomb in North Sinai’s city of Sheikh Zuweid, killing a soldier and injuring an army...

(The Daily Star)- Tunisian forces captured three large arms caches near the border with Libya over the weekend, including Kalashnikov rifles, rockets and landmines, the interior ministry said. The caches in the border city of Ben Guerdane will stoke Tunisia's concerns about the threat of...

Riot police and armored vehicles filled the otherwise empty streets of central Cairo early on Friday as security forces built up a heavy presence in anticipation of popular protests over deteriorating economic conditions. A little-known group calling itself Movement of the Poor has called...

(Middle East Eye)- Egyptian authorities have frozen the assets of a prominent human rights group that works with torture victims, the head of the organisation said on Thursday. The move came months after authorities tried on two separate occasions to shut down the El Nadeem Centre for the...

Allies of Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar, the dominant figure in the divided country's east, have welcomed Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. election, betting on more support for their anti-Islamist stance. The result could boost pro-Haftar factions with strong ties to Egypt and...

Six years since a young Tunisian stallholder set himself on fire, triggering revolutions across the Arab world, his country’s suicide rate is surging over economic and social woes, experts say. Mohammad Bouazizi, who self-immolated on Dec. 17, 2010, in protest at unemployment and police...

(Middle East Monitor)- Libyan pro-government forces said on Tuesday that they discovered a special prison in Sirte set up by the Daesh group for prisoners it sentenced to death. Alhurra TV quoted the Libyan forces saying that the building contained small cells with ventilation ducts but no...

Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed heads to Paris Wednesday in a bid to drum up French investment in the struggling economy of its former North African colony. Chahed, 41, will meet his counterpart Manuel Valls and President Francois Hollande during the "strategic" visit, he told AFP in...