Tunisia’s governing Islamist party, Ennahda, thrust into power by the Arab Spring, has agreed to step down after months of political wrangling with a hard-bargaining opposition. In three weeks, the Ennahda-led government is to hand over power to an independent caretaker government...

Gunmen killed at least 26 people on Sunday in an attack on a college in northeast Nigeria, a hospital source said, in a region where Islamist militants have targeted schools and universities. Islamist sect Boko Haram has intensified attacks on civilian targets in recent weeks in reaction...

Many complaints have been raised in the Ministry of social affairs in regard to violation in distributing aid to people in the coastal areas of Syria. The violation reached to an extent of killing Ali Ballan, the manager of public relation in the ministry. According to...

Syria's government will not accept any transition peace plan that excludes President Bashar Assad, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem has said. He spoke on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, a day after the Security Council approved a resolution that obliges Syria's...