Algeria will hold a presidential election on Dec. 12, interim President Abdelkader Bensalah said in a televised speech on Sunday. Weekly mass demonstrations forced veteran president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign in April, leaving Algeria in constitutional limbo and facing a stand off...

Iran rejected accusations by the United States that it was behind attacks on Saudi oil plants that risk disrupting world energy supplies and warned on Sunday that U.S. bases and aircraft carriers in the region were in range of its missiles. Yemen’s Houthi group claimed responsibility for...

Syria's future belongs to its people, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday.  He was speaking to reporters at the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran ahead of a visit to Ankara to attend a trilateral meeting with leaders of Russia and Turkey on Syria. "Apart from the stability and...

 Polling booths closed at 6 p.m. (1700 GMT) in Tunisia Sunday after voting in the first round of a presidential election in the young democracy. The head of the electoral commission had earlier called for young voters to head to the polls, with turnout standing at only 27.8 percent by...