A journalist arrested last week as he covered Algeria's weekly anti-regime demonstration said Monday that he was beaten, insulted and humiliated for eight hours. Mustapha Bendjama, editor-in-chief of local daily Le Provincial, told AFP he was slapped and punched by members of police...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi left hospital Monday in "normal health" and the 92-year-old leader will resume work in the coming days, the president's son said on his Facebook page. Essebsi, a major player in the North African country's transition to democracy after a 2011 revolution,...

The Lebanese government vowed on Monday to restore security to an area of a deadly shooting that has stirred fear of renewed strife in the Chouf Mountains, one of the bloodiest theaters of the 1975-90 civil war. Two aides of government minister Saleh al-Gharib, the state minister for...

Egyptian officials say militants have stormed a post office in the northern Sinai Peninsula and seized around $6,000 in local currency. The officials say the attack took place Monday in al-Rouda village, where a 2017 militant assault on a mosque killed more than 300 people. The...