At least 18 people died and 37 others were injured when a fire broke out at a camp for African refugees in southern Algeria on Tuesday, Algerian official media reported, citing civil protection services. Algeria's south has become a traditional route for African migrants and refugees...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will discuss a $500 million loan guarantee, security cooperation, and support for Tunisia's democratic transition when he visits Tunis on Friday, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday. The United States said on May it was prepared to consider...
Libya's self-declared government in Tripoli has arrested a United Arab Emirates soldier and placed him under investigation for spying after finding evidence among his documents and on his computer, authorities said on Wednesday. The soldier, identified as Yousef Saqer Ahmad Mubarak, was...
At least 16 people have been killed in heavy fighting in the Libyan city of Benghazi between forces allied with the official government and Islamic State fighters, a military commander said on Wednesday. Benghazi, caught up in fighting for more than a year, is just one front in Libya's...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken with U.S. President Barack Obama over the phone, which included talks over the ongoing Syrian stalemate, Turkey's presidential press office said Tuesday. Erdogan and Obama discussed the importance of making joint efforts to empower the moderate...
Thirty two Tunisian lawmakers accused President Beji Caid Essebsi's son of meddling and resigned from the ruling party bloc in parliament Monday, allowing Islamist rivals to become the largest party. Tunisia has enjoyed a period of political stability following its transition to democracy...
Laayoune (AFP) - Morocco's King Mohammed VI has vowed that revenues from the mineral-rich Western Sahara will continue to be invested locally, on a rare visit to the disputed territory. He was speaking late Friday in the territory's main city Laayoune, to mark 40 years since...
Gunmen have kidnapped a minister in Libya's Tripoli-based government, parliament said on Tuesday, and accused a group linked to its own interior minister of being behind the abduction. The security and defence commission of the General National Congress (GNC) said in a statement that it...
A helicopter carrying 16 people was shot down and crashed into the sea near Libya's capital on Tuesday with at least nine passengers, including a senior militiaman, confirmed dead, a military official said. The aircraft was hit by gunfire shortly before noon and went down near the Al-Maya...
Human Rights Watch Sunday called for a thorough and impartial investigation into the death of two Tunisian detainees in suspicious circumstances in separate cases. "Relatives of both men provided photographs showing marks and bruises on their faces and bodies, and said that authorities had...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that she has taken responsibility for the U.S. consulate attack in the Libyan city of Benghazi in 2012, which killed four American diplomats, including the ambassador. In remarks made in a testimony before a U.S. Congressional Committee on...
Partly burned and still abandoned, the high-walled villas that once housed the U.S. consulate compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi now sit on a frontline of a nation at war with itself. Three years after militants killed U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other...
Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet winning the Nobel Peace Prize is a breath of fresh air for a fragile emerging democracy facing serious security issues that threaten its economy. The prize comes nearly five years after a desperate Tunisian street vendor set himself on fire,...
Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its contribution to building democracy after the Jasmine Revolution in 2011, the Nobel Committee said. The quartet is made up of the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT), the Tunisian Confederation of...
The United Nations on Thursday proposed to a national unity government to Libya's warring factions meant to end their conflict, but any deal must overcome resistance from hardliners and pass a vote in their rival parliaments to succeed. Four years after the fall of Muammar...
Attackers have shot at a Tunisian sports magnate and legislator in a city where an Islamic extremist killed 38 tourists earlier this year. Ridha Charfeddine was not hurt in Thursday's attack, according to senior security official Rafik Chelli. The reason for the attack is unclear. Charfeddine...
The Tunisian police has broken up three "cells" that were recruiting fighters for Islamic State and arrested 11 people suspected of trying to join the Islamist militant group in Libya, the Tunisian Ministry of Interior said. Tunisia has been on high alert against possible attacks since Islamist...
Libya's elected parliament voted on Monday to extend its mandate, due to expire on Oct. 20, in a move likely to complicate U.N. attempts to end a crisis between the country's two rival governments. Four years after the uprising that toppled veteran ruler Muammar Gaddafi, the...
Islamic State militants attacked forces guarding one of Libya's main oil ports on Thursday with a gun assault and an attempted car bomb in an escalation of their campaign in the North African state, a local security official said. Islamic State has gained ground in Libya where...
Hundreds of Tunisians have gathered in the heart of the capital under heavy security to protest against a law which offers amnesty for those accused of corruption. The controversial draft law on economic reconciliation is a centerpiece of the new government's program and seeks to boost the...
