Libya's UN-recognized government on Sunday called for international action to halt attacks by eastern Libyan forces on civilians in the capital Tripoli. At least 30 students were killed and dozens injured in an airstrike by forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar, who is based in eastern Libya, on a...

Thirty people were killed and 33 injured Saturday in an airstrike here by eastern Libyan forces. Jets loyal to Gen. Khalifa Haftar bombed a military school dormitory in southern Tripoli, according to the media office of the Burkan Al-Ghadab (Volcano of Rage) operation. The operation was in...

 Libyan deputies voted Saturday for a break in diplomatic relations with Turkey over its controversial agreements with the UN-recognized government that is contested inside the North African country. At an emergency meeting in the eastern city of Benghazi, parliament also urged the...

The head of Egypt’s tax authority, Abdul Azim Hussein, has been arrested on charges of receiving bribes, the public prosecutors’ office said on Saturday. “It was proved through recorded phone calls and meetings that he received money and gifts as bribes”, it added in a statement. The...

Tunisia's designated prime minister will hold more talks on forming a government, the presidential office said, delaying parliament's vote on the new cabinet that had been expected Thursday. Prime Minister-designate Habib Jemli submitted his proposed cabinet list to President Kais Saied...

Turkey's parliament is to vote Thursday on whether to send Turkish troops to Libya, to back the U.N.-supported government in Tripoli that is battling forces loyal to a rival administration in eastern Libya seeking to capture the country's capital. The Turkish lawmakers are expected to...

Tunisia's designated prime minister Habib Jemli submitted a proposed cabinet to President Kais Saied Wednesday, but he has not yet publicly announced the names of cabinet ministers. The new government, which Jemli said last month would be formed of political independents, will be put to...

Southern separatists in Yemen have pulled out of committees implementing a November agreement to end a power struggle in the south that had opened a new front in the country's multifaceted war. The pact was reached after more than a month of indirect talks in Saudi Arabia. Under the deal,...

Turkey may hold off from sending troops to Libya if forces loyal to eastern commander Khalifa Haftar halt their offensive against the internationally recognized government in Tripoli and pull back, the Turkish vice president said Wednesday. The Turkish parliament is due to debate and vote...

Six Saudi Arabian prisoners held in Yemen by the Iran-aligned Houthi group have returned home in a move facilitated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Saudi state media, the ICRC and Houthi media said Wednesday. The six men arrived in Riyadh Wednesday, the spokesman for...

The Arab League called Tuesday for efforts to "prevent foreign interference" in Libya in the wake of military and maritime agreements signed by Turkey with the UN-recognised government in Tripoli. Permanent representatives of the pan-Arab organisation, in a meeting at its Cairo headquarters...

Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) said it had destroyed 12 armed vehicles and killed 10 militants of rival Khalifa Haftar forces as fresh clashes hit southern Tripoli. In April, Haftar's forces launched a military campaign to capture Tripoli from the internationally...

 Sporadic tribal clashes between Arabs and non-Arabs continued Tuesday in Sudan’s West Darfur province, as the death toll climbed to at least two dozen people, some of them burned to death, according to a local aid group working in the area. Some of the 24 dead were children, said Adam...

A guard withholds water from a barefoot migrant kneeling in front of him. An emaciated man lies on the ground while a thermostat reads a broiling 43 degrees Celsius. Refugees cower to the ground as bullets whiz by. These rough pencil sketches by an Eritrean refugee offer a glimpse of the...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday met the main opposition party leader to discuss the upcoming parliament session on possible military deployment in Libya. Cavusoglu informed Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the Republican People's Party (CHP) about the motion to be submitted in the...

A court in Sudan on Monday sentenced 27 members of the country's security forces to death for torturing and killing a detained protester during the uprising against Sudan's longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir earlier this year. The death of protester Ahmed al-Khair, a school teacher, while in...

Hundreds of people demonstrated Saturday outside Morocco’s parliament demanding the release of a journalist detained for criticising a judge in a tweet. Omar Radi, 33, was detained Thursday in Casablanca and immediately put on trial for the tweet about a judge prosecuting protest leaders,...

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said six "sensitive" locations in Saudi Arabia and three in the United Arab Emirates are on a list of strike targets, the group's al-Masirah TV reported Sunday, quoting a Houthi military spokesman. The Houthis in September said they would stop attacking Saudi...

Greece wants to be included in UN-sponsored talks in January on the Libya conflict, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Sunday, as tensions escalate with neighbours Turkey over the issue. Libya has become another diplomatic front for Greece and Turkey as the traditional rivals...

Libya’s national oil company said Saturday it may face closure because of clashes close to its refinery in the country’s western port.  The NOC said in a statement that three bombs hit close to its oil storage tanks in the last 48 hours in the western Zawiya port. Libya’s largest...