(Reuters) - Jordanian fighter jets pounded Islamic State hideouts in Syria on Thursday and then roared over the hometown of a pilot killed by the militants while King Abdullah consoled the victim's family below. Witnesses overheard the monarch telling the pilot's father the...

(Reuters) - Libya's only commercial flight link to mainland Europe was severed on Thursday when the state carrier said its foreign partner had pulled out of the country after a deadly attack last week on a Tripoli hotel. The carrier, Afriqiyah, had only just restarted the route...

(Reuters) - Tunisia's parliament approved a coalition cabinet on Thursday including secularists, Islamists and smaller parties, in the latest step in its transition to full democracy following a 2011 uprising. Four years after its uprising against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben...

Rachid Ghannouchi, the head of Tunisia's Ennahda Islamist movement, predicted that the new leadership of Gulf powerhouse Saudi Arabia will adopt a mediatory role in Egypt and Syria. "I expect [new] King Salman bin Abdulaziz to lead reconciliation efforts in the region and...