Rare small protests broke out on Friday in Cairo and other Egyptian cities calling for the removal of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi but police quickly dispersed them, AFP journalists reported. Dozens of people joined night-time demonstrations around Tahrir Square - the epicentre of the...

President Donald Trump on Friday announced new sanctions on Iran's central bank, calling the measures the toughest ever imposed on another country by the United States. "We have just sanctioned the Iranian national bank," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "These are the highest...

The Pentagon will present a broad range of military options to President Donald Trump Friday as he considers how to respond to what administration officials say was an unprecedented Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia's oil industry. In a White House meeting, the Republican president will be...

Tunisia's influential Islamist-inspired party Ennahdha said Friday it will support law professor and political outsider Kais Saied in a presidential runoff against jailed media magnate Nabil Karoui. "Ennahdha has chosen to support the people's choice," party spokesman Imed Khemiri told AFP...