Morocco's government on Wednesday extended a medical state of emergency until next month in the face of a sharp rise in coronavirus cases. "Today, the cabinet approved a project for a decree extending until October 10 the duration of the medical state of emergency to combat Covid-19," Prime...

Lebanon's President Michel Aoun has come under fire after it emerged that tea donated by Sri Lanka for victims of the Beirut blast was distributed instead to families of his presidential guards. Critics see it as yet another example of official corruption in a country reeling from the...

India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar held talks Tuesday in the Iranian capital, becoming the second senior Indian minister to visit the Islamic republic this week. "A productive meeting with FM @JZarif during a stopover in Tehran," he tweeted, after a meeting with his Iranian...

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Monday for a knife attack in Tunisia which killed one National Guard officer and wounded another, as security forces rounded up more suspects. The attack on Sunday morning in a tourist district of the coastal city of Sousse saw a group of...