The Yemeni army said on Sunday a rebel commander was killed in clashes in the southern Ad Dali' province. The army’s September Net website said Ali Mohamed Ali al-Zarqi was killed, along with a number of Houthi rebels, in the city of Qa’taba in the province. According to the website,...

Elyes Fakhfakh’s resignation as Tunisia’s prime minister has sparked a crisis in a country already in the throes of economic and political turmoil. He stepped down on Wednesday after less than six months in office, facing a no-confidence vote amid allegations of wrongdoing from Tunisia’s...

A senior Libyan official on Friday Egypt's president over recent threats to intervene militarily and arm tribes in the country. Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha said on Twitter that his country would not accept steps "to undermine [Libyan] sovereignty or bypass the legitimate government."...

The United States charged Thursday that the EU mission to halt arms shipments to Libya lacked seriousness, sharing Turkey's criticism that the effort is biased. The European Union set up Operation Irini to enforce a UN embargo on sending weapons to war-torn Libya, leading to an incident at...

The United Nations envoy on Yemen called on Thursday for a transparent investigation into air strikes that killed at least 11 civilians in al-Jawf province, saying resurgent violence is complicating U.N.-led efforts to end the five-year war. Security is deteriorating anew as Yemen faces...

Egypt will not stand idle in the face of any direct threat to Egyptian and Libyan security, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said Thursday, after lawmakers allied to commander Khalifa Haftar urged Cairo to intervene militarily in Libya's civil war. Tribal leaders who flew in from Haftar's...

Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh resigned on Wednesday, according to two official sources who did not want to be named, after a row with the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party. Fakhfakh, who is under investigation over allegations of conflict of interest, has had strained relations...

Air strikes on Yemen's northern province of al-Jawf killed at least seven civilians on Wednesday, residents and an official from the Houthi movement said - the third such incident since June as violence resurges in the war-ravaged country. The Houthi health ministry spokesman said air raids...

The US military accused a Russian state-backed mercenary group of laying landmines and other explosive devices in and around Tripoli, violating a UN arms embargo on Libya. The Pentagon's African Command said that it had "verified photographic evidence" that the Wagner Group, a private...

Tunisia's moderate Islamist party Ennahda, the biggest party in the parliament, decided Wednesday to withdraw confidence from the government, a senior official in Ennahda told Reuters. Ennahda’s move will deepen the political crisis engulfing Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfkah, whom Ennahda says...

The Libyan army announced Wednesday that a total of 225 bodies have been unearthed from mass graves in the south of the capital Tripoli and in the city of Tarhuna and its surrounding areas in 40 days. The corpses were found in areas liberated from eastern Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar's...

Fatma Youssef stuffs rice, chicken or meat and vegetables into boxes spread on her dining table -- tens of them in the last few weeks. On some, she scribbles "Be well" in Arabic; on others, she writes "Together, we will get through this." Youssef doesn’t know who will eat her food. Still,...

A Tunisian court has sentenced blogger Emna Chargui to six months in prison and a $700 fine for reposting a Facebook joke about the coronavirus written as if it was a Quranic verse. "This is unfair and unjust ... this proves that there is no freedom here," Chargui, 27, told Reuters from...

Libya's eastern-based parliament has called for Egypt to directly intervene in the country's civil war to counter Turkish support for the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), based in the capital Tripoli. In a statement late Monday, the House of Representatives...

Oman recorded 14 fatalities from coronavirus on Tuesday, the highest daily death toll since the pandemic hit the Gulf state in mid-February, according to the Health Ministry. A ministry statement said a further 1,389 new infections were registered over the past 24 hours, pushing...

Seven children and two women were killed in an air raid in northwest Yemen, a UN agency said Monday, as Riyadh said it intercepted missiles fired by Yemeni Huthi rebels. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also said another two women and two children were...

Turkey dismissed prospects of any imminent ceasefire in Libya on Monday, saying any deal incorporating the conflict's existing front lines would not benefit the Ankara-backed Government of National Accord. In an interview with state broadcaster TRT Haber, Foreign Minister Mevlut...

Libya’s Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha held talks via video conference on Sunday with the acting head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Stephanie Williams, to discuss Libyan plans to reform the security sector.  "We are determined to move forward in implementing the...

Yemeni forces seized an arms shipment to Houthi rebels in Al-Hudaydah province in western Yemen, according to the army on Sunday.  A military statement said the shipment included light and medium weapons, ammunition and mortar shells. According to the statement, government forces...

Sudan will permit non-Muslims to consume alcohol and the country will strengthen women's rights, including banning female genital mutilation (FGM), its justice minister said late on Saturday. This marks a reversal of almost four decades of hardline Islamist policies. About 3% of Sudan's...