A human rights group says the Egyptian government bears responsibility for the death of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, amid pressing international demands for a fair and transparent investigation into the circumstances surrounding his final hours. According to authorities, the...

  Ousted former Egyptian Islamist President Mohammad Morsi died Monday after he fainted in court following a hearing, state television reported. Mursi, a top figure in the Muslim Brotherhood who was the first democratically elected president in Egypt's modern history, had...

At least 30 people have been killed in a triple suicide attack in northeast Nigerian state of Borno, state emergency officials said on Monday, in the biggest mass killing this year by suicide bombers. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. The Boko Haram group and its...

Ali Haddad, a key backer of Algeria's former leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika and one of the country's top businessmen, was jailed for six months Monday for holding two passports, state television reported. The former head of Algeria’s business confederation was arrested in late March on the...