Tunisia is seeking the extradition of former President Zein El-Abidine Ben Ali’s brother in law from France on charges of fraud, the justice ministry said in a statement on...

Russian Special Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, said yesterday that his country will support the Sudanese people and their leadership represented...

“Holding periodic youth conferences has provided successful results and has been a great communication platform among the world’s youth,” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said yesterday. Speaking at the...

Iran recalled its ambassador to Kenya because of a court decision upholding sentences for two Iranians in jail, foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said Sunday, according to the Iranian...

The Moroccan authorities confirmed on Saturday their “non-intervention” in Algeria’s internal affairs against the backdrop of demonstrations the country has been witnessing since 22 February. Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser...

Abdul Razzaq Al-Maqri, head of the Society for Peace Movement in Algeria, called on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the ruling party to step down after weeks of mass protests in the country....

African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki called for a national dialogue in Algeria to end the “crisis” the country has been experiencing because of the popular protest against President...

Egypt is negotiating a $2 billion loan agreement with some international financial institutions to finance the development of the transport sector in the coming period, the country’s transport minister,...

Algeria’s newly-appointed prime minister has started talks to form a new government, the state news agency and Reuters reported on Sunday, in a move designed to appease protesters demanding...

Californian group Red Hot Chili Peppers played in front of Egypt’s great pyramids of Giza on Friday, entertaining more than 10,000 people at the site and many more over...

The Grand Sheikh of Egypt’s Al-Azhar university, Sheikh Ahmad Al-Tayyip, condemned the massacre of worshippers in two mosques in New Zealand, noting this indicates a dangerous spike in hatred...

Egyptian opposition factions are to organise demonstrations in the US and seven other countries against execution sentences carried out by the Egyptian regime. The demonstrations will condemn the “politicised”...

Algeria’s ruling party has abandoned support for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika after weeks of protests against his decision to stand for a fifth term in the upcoming election. Many indicators...

The emergence of remnants of the former Tunisian regime has triggered Tunisians’ fears of a return to tyranny amid the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, which are officially scheduled...

Al-Shehab Centre for Human Rights yesterday called for the urgent treatment of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammad Al-Beltaji, who is imprisoned in the notorious Al-Aqrab Prison in Egypt. In a...

Thousands of people rallied in Algiers today to protest the decision of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to delay the election, calling for him to step down immediately. “FLN go,”...

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry yesterday called on the United States to respect the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of foreign countries, after a State Department report criticised...

The Algerian government said on Wednesday it was ready to hold talks with protesters eager for a quick political change, saying it wants a system based on the people’s...

An Iraqi official in Baghdad has revealed on Thursday that several foreign intelligence delegations have arrived recently in Iraq, most of which are European. They came to Iraq in...

A report shown by the Cairo Criminal Court revealed that the UAE financed an opposition group during the era of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. At the 55th session of...

The External Relations Officer of the Tunisian Ennahda Movement, Rafiq Abdul Salam, has said that that violation and negligence are behind the incident of the death of 11 babies...

Hundreds of protesters chanting anti-government slogans took to the streets of several neighbourhoods in the Sudanese capital today, eyewitnesses said, while President Omar Al-Bashir said he would seek dialogue...

Algeria’s new prime minister has announced that he will form a temporary government of technocrats and others to work towards political change in response to weeks of street protests,...

A US State Department report on human rights for 2018 acknowledged that government agents carried out the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the consulate of Saudi Arabia in...

Months later, Al-Sisi carried out a bloody coup against Morsi’s government and has allowed the army to take control of most state institutions

Iran did not attend the 14th session of the Parliamentary Union of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Member States (PUIC) conference taking place in Rabat, Morocco, Anadolu Agency reported....

Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday defended the death penalty carried out against political opponents of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. In a statement reported by the Anadolu Agency, the...

Palestinian factions are waiting for the results of the Egyptian and Qatari moves to set up a truce between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Mujtama magazine reported...

Tunisian authorities are investigating the sexual abuse of 20 children who had been mistreated in a public school by their teacher. A spokesman for the Sfax courts, Murad Turki,...

Egyptian authorities have closed Suez and Nuweiba ports on the Red Sea due to bad weather, Red Sea Ports Authority said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. The authorities had earlier closed...

Brazilian right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro will visit Israel at the end of the month but he may not be able to deliver on a promise to move Brazil’s embassy...

Egypt’s highest appellate court has upheld prison sentences against 27 policemen for “disrupting” the flow of work, according to the official MENA news agency on Wednesday, reports Anadolu Agency....