Former French President Jacques Chirac's family bade him a final farewell Saturday at an intimate ceremony in the southwestern village where he grew up. "I can only say thank you in the name of my father and mother," the statesman's daughter Claude Chirac said in a tearful address at...

Turkey's president threatened Saturday to launch a military operation into northeastern Syria, where U.S. troops are deployed and have been trying to defuse tension between Washington's two allies — Ankara and the Syrian Kurds. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's threats were a warning that...

Tens of thousands of Algerian protesters chanted slogans on Friday demanding the army quit politics, a purge of the ruling elite, an end to corruption, and the freeing of opposition leaders. The demonstrations in the capital Algiers and several other cities follow a ruling by a prominent...

Detained Tunisian presidential candidate Nabil Karoui's inability to campaign is affecting the credibility of the elections and the country's image, interim president Mohamed Ennaceur said Friday. Karoui, who will contest a runoff vote against independent Kais Saied on Oct. 13, was...