(Reuters) - Khalifa Haftar, one of the most divisive figures in post-revolutionary Libya , was appointed army commander for the country's internationally recognized government on Monday in a move that could complicate U.N. talks to end the conflict. Four years after Muammar...

The Egyptian government said Monday that 33,247 Egyptians had returned home from next-door  Libya since Feb. 16. In statements to Egyptian state television, Al-Anani Hammouda, security chief in Egypt's Matrouh province, said that some 787 Egyptians had returned home via the Salloum...

(Reuters) - A drone attack killed two suspected al Qaeda militants in the southern Yemeni province of Shabwa on Monday, local residents told Reuters, the latest in a series of strikes in the country gripped by political turmoil. The attack targeted militants traveling in a vehicle in...

  Iraq's army and Shi'ite militia have launched a long-awaited offensive against Islamic State in Salahuddin province, a stronghold of the radical Islamist fighters north of Baghdad, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday. The ultra-radical fighters control several...