Members of the East Libya-based parliament on Monday rejected an attempted coup by the warlord Khalifa Haftar. This came in a statement issued by 11 prominent members of the...

Russian fighters in Libya were flown out of a town south of Tripoli by their Libyan allies after retreating from frontlines at the capital, Reuters reported the town’s mayor...

Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar called on his forces on Saturday to rally against Turkey, which has helped his Tripoli-based rivals turn the tide of a military conflict around the...

The EU ambassador to Libya has called on warring parties to stop clashes and mark Eid al-Fitr, holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, in peace,...

Media outlets in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt have launched a systematic campaign against Rached Ghannouchi, the intellectual leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement, to tarnish...

US President Donald Trump called for a “rapid de-escalation” of the Libyan conflict on a call with Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday, the White House said, after recent...

Militias loyal to Libya’s renegade commander Khalifa Haftar Sunday hit the capital Tripoli with a rocket attack, Anadolu Agency reports. The attack targeted Mitiga International Airport, according to a statement by...

The tally of coronavirus cases and deaths rose Saturday in several Arab countries, according to health authorities, Anadolu Agency reports.  Authorities in the Gaza Strip reported their first death...

Libya’s internationally-recognised government retook parts of southern Tripoli on Friday from the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) of Khalifa Haftar, whose 13-month campaign to seize the capital is under...

Egyptian security forces killed 21 suspected militants in North Sinai, part of a group that the interior ministry said was planning attacks over the Eid holiday that marks the...

The Libyan government announced on Thursday that it aims to extend security control over the entire country, to manage the political process with those who “believe in a democratic...

An Emirati foundation announced on Thursday that it will suspend all its activities in Morocco, due to the increasing tension and discord between Abu Dhabi and Rabat during the...

Ethiopia’s Irrigation Minister Seleshi Bekele told resident African ambassadors in Addis Ababa that his country has so far completed 73 per cent of the Renaissance Dam, adding that Ethiopia...

Medical doctors in Sudan have threatened to strike in protest against repeated attacks on health workers on duty at hospitals, a statement issued on Thursday by the Unified Office...

Egypt registered 745 coronavirus cases yesterday, just one day after it announced Tuesday saw the worst daily number of infections in the country. On Tuesday the number of infected...

At least 29 Palestinians in Gaza have contracted the new coronavirus, the Health Ministry in Gaza said on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. Yousef Abu al-Reesh, Gaza’s deputy health minister, said in...

Turkey warned on Thursday against any attacks on its interests in Libya by Khalifa Haftar’s forces after his Libyan National Army (LNA) threatened to respond to recent military setbacks...

Families rushed to buy sweets and biscuits in Cairo as they prepared to celebrate the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan under a tightened coronavirus curfew and...

Tunisia will reopen mosques, restaurants and cafes as of June 4 as coronavirus outbreak has slowed down in the country, authorities announced on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. Authorities will continue...

The World Bank on Thursday approved a record $500 million in grants and low-interest loans to help countries in Africa and the Middle East fight swarms of desert locusts...

Two UN agencies on Thursday called on Malta and other European countries to speed up efforts to bring to dry land some 160 rescued refugees and migrants from Libya,...

Russia and Turkey yesterday reaffirmed their commitment to cooperation in the Syrian crisis and called for an immediate cessation in hostilities in Libya and the resumption of the political...

Egyptian security forces have arrested 14 Copts and assaulted a priest in Beheira who were protesting against the destruction of their church in the village of Kom Al-Darah in...

Libya’s warlord Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) announced it was withdrawing from Tripoli to ease conditions for residents at the end of Ramadan. Haftar said his troops were...

Egyptian business tycoon and the country’s second richest man, Naguib Sawiris, said that the army’s economic activities have impacted entrepreneurs negatively. Sawiris, whose net worth is estimated by Forbes at $3...

Egyptian security forces have arrested a journalist and former researcher for the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information. Shaima Sami wrote on Facebook that she was being arrested from...

Algerian courts handed down harsh jail terms to three opposition activists over their posts on Facebook, two human rights groups reported. The court of Cheraga sentenced Soheib Debaghi to...

The Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations (UN), Taher Al-Sunni, said his country will sue the UAE in the international courts for providing military support to renegade...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has ordered a reduction in coronavirus tests among policemen and detainees after reducing tests available to paramedics, sources told Arabi21 yesterday. The sources also said that...

Libya’s internationally backed Government of National Accord (GNA) yesterday officially accused the UAE of being the main instigator of instability and chaos in the country as a result of...

The two cities of Zintan and Mizda in Libya announced their support on Wednesday for the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), while the Libyan army continues to advance...

The Head of the Libyan government’s Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj expressed strong resentment at the failure of the European Union (EU) to take a firmer and more effective stance...