Four people, including three policemen, were killed in a shooting attack in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a microbus in North Sinai’s city of Arish, an Egyptian security source told Anadolu Agency. “Three policemen and the driver were...

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced seven people to death for alleged links to the 2013 killing of a senior police officer, according to a judicial source. The court also slapped five people with a 10-year jail term each and acquitted another defendant in the same case, the source said...

Rescuers recovered at least 162 bodies from a migrant shipwreck off Egypt's coast by Friday evening, as the search for victims entered its third day. Survivors have said up to 450 migrants were on board the overcrowded fishing vessel that was heading to Italy from Egypt when it keeled over...

Libyan forces said they foiled three attempted car bombings in renewed heavy fighting against Islamic State holdouts in the group's former stronghold of Sirte on Thursday. Forces led by brigades from the western city of Misrata and supported since Aug. 1 by U.S. air strikes have surrounded...

Nine more bodies have been recovered from the Mediterranean a day after a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off the coast of Egypt, officials said on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 52. Police arrested four members of the boat's crew. Security sources said it had been loaded...

At least five people were killed on Tuesday -- including the aide of a parliamentary speaker -- when a helicopter crashed in eastern Libya, according to a local military official. The aircraft went down in the Al-Makhili district between the eastern cities of Tobruk and Derna, the official...

Unidentified gunmen in southern Libya on Monday abducted two Italian nationals and a Canadian working for an Italian airport maintenance company, according to a local official. "The abducted individuals were doing maintenance on the city’s airport," Qomani Mohamed Saleh, mayor of Libya’s...

Tunisia has extended the current state of emergency for another month, the Tunisian Presidency has announced. A statement said after consulting the premier and head of the national assembly on national security issues, President Beji Caid Essebsi decided to extend the state of emergency from...

An Egyptian court slapped Saturday a suspect with a 15-year jail term for links with Daesh group. The Cairo Criminal Court jailed the suspect, a driver, for fighting alongside Daesh militants in Syria, a judicial source said on condition of anonymity because he was unauthorized to speak to...

An Egyptian court on Saturday upheld a freeze on the assets of five human rights activists and three non-government organizations. An investigating magistrate had ordered the freeze in March pending approval from the court. “The court approved the order to freeze the assets of the five...

My last visit to Ben Gardane, a coastal town in southeastern Tunisia, was in March, shortly after Daesh militants tried to seize the city. From capital Tunis to our hotel in Ben Gardane, few security checkpoints could be seen. But as we approached the town’s northern entrance, we could...

Moncef al-Marzouki, former president of Tunisia and leader of the Harak Tounes al-Irada party, has criticized a private television channel’s decision not to broadcast an interview recently conducted with him. On his official Facebook page, al-Marzouki said the broadcast of the interview --...

Libyan forces loyal to eastern commander Khalifa Haftar said on Monday they had tightened their control over four major oil ports, casting a Western-backed project to unite Libya and revive oil exports into deep uncertainty. Haftar's forces met little resistance as they seized the terminals...

In a rare show of public activity on Thursday, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika -- who since 2013 has suffered from the effects of a blood clot in the brain -- inaugurated a conference center west of capital Algiers, according to Algerian state television. "President Bouteflika on...

Libyan politicians began Monday two days of U.N.-brokered talks in Tunis to discuss power struggles and militant threats that are undermining stability in the country. The members of the Libyan Political Dialogue signed in December 2015 a political agreement that established the U.N.-backed...

TRIPOLI  At least 11 soldiers were killed as Libyan government forces pushed deep into the last Daesh stronghold in the northern Sirte city.  Akram Kleo, a spokesman for the Musrata hospital, said 11 corpses were admitted to the hospital on Saturday.  “More than 30...

SIRTE, Libya: Forces loyal to Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) said Saturday they have launched a new attack on diehards of ISIS in the coastal city of Sirte. "We are attacking the last ISIS positions in district three," a GNA fighter told AFP. The GNA forces media center...

Behind the front lines in the Libyan city of Sirte, ageing tanks crunch through the debris of battle to new positions and resting fighters drink sweetened coffee waiting for orders to advance. Ahead, Islamic state militants besieged in a single residential neighborhood and targeted by U.S. air...

Tunisian police killed two Islamist militants on Wednesday and seized arms and an explosive belt prepared for suicide attacks during a dawn raid in a central province following an earlier ambush on an army patrol, the interior ministry said. Al Qaeda-linked Islamists based in the remote...

Eighteen fighters loyal to Libya's UN-backed unity government were killed and 120 others wounded in clashes Sunday with ISIS in Sirte, a medical source said. A field hospital for the forces backing the Government of National Accord listed the names of the 18 fighters killed in the coastal...