Libya will return to "square one" and the turmoil of 2011 if national elections planned for December are delayed, the speaker of parliament said, with a new rival government...

A Saudi court sentenced a Sudanese journalist to four years in prison for social media posts critical of the kingdom, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, reports Reuters. Ahmed...

Article 80 of Tunisia's 2014 Constitution has been cited by President Kais Saied to justify what is being described as a "coup" in the country on Sunday. The text...

On Sunday Tunisia's President, Kais Saeid assumed emergency powers to sack the prime minister, suspend parliament and the immunity of parliamentarians, and assume authority of the government. The birthplace...

The European Union called yesterday for the Tunisian constitution and state institutions to be respected, Anadolu has reported. Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Nabila Masrali said that...

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, yesterday urged Tunisian President Kais Saied to adhere to democracy during discussion on the developments in the north African state. Blinken told Saied...

Tunisia's President Kais Saied has insisted that he has no intention to overturn the Constitution and political legitimacy in the country. His decision to suspend parliament and dismiss the...

Egypt's Supreme Council for Universities has asked university deans to make lists of "terrorist" employees so they can be expelled. At the end of June Egypt's parliament approved a draft...

Tunisian President Kais Saied yesterday suspended work at public institutions for two days starting today, Anadolu news agency reported. The Tunisian presidency said in a statement that Saied also imposed a...

An Israeli District Court in Jerusalem has fined the Palestinian Authority (PA) one million shekels ($306,000) in case of the kidnapping of two Jewish women in the 1980s, local...

At least 57 irregular migrants have died after a boat sank off the Libyan coast, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced yesterday. The United Nations organisation said the migrants died...

Tunis, 26 July 2021 For months, Tunisia has been living in an unprecedented and multidimensional crisis that reached its peak on 25 July, on the 64th anniversary of the...

President Kais Saied's decision to invoke Article 80 of the Tunisian constitution late on Sunday to freeze the activities of parliament and oust the prime minister was rapidly called...

The Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament and leader of Ennahda Movement has described President Kais Saied's decision to dissolve the government and freeze Parliament as a "complete coup against...

A landmark deal between Israel and the UAE that has the potential to transform the transportation of oil across the Middle East has hit a major snag, delaying efforts...

Morocco's ambassador to France, Chakib Benmoussa, has denied that his country has acquired or used the Israeli Pegasus spyware to target French President Emmanuel Macron, RT has reported. Benmoussa...

Tunisia's Ennahda movement said yesterday that "criminal gangs backed by parties outside and inside the country" attacked its headquarters, in order to overthrow the country's democratic path and pave...

Sudanese judoka Mohamed Abdalrasool has withdrawn from the Olympics Games in Tokyo after being absent from a scheduled fight against an Israeli opponent. Abdalrasool was set to face Israel's...

Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah said there will be no more wars in Libya and that his government will provide Sabha, a region in the south, with all necessary...

Prominent Egyptian opposition leader and former presidential candidate, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, has suffered a heart attack in jail, his son Hudhayfa said on Facebook. Hudhayfa said prison guards...

Hundreds of Egyptian journalists have called for the release of all political prisoners, local media reported yesterday. In an official note, the Journalists Syndicate called on the country's public...

The Tunisian coast guards on Saturday rescued 155 irregular migrants off the country's southern and eastern coasts, Anadolu reported. "The National Guard managed on Friday and Saturday to thwart 16 illegal...

Tunisian security forces have stormed the offices of Al Jazeera and expelled its staff, the media group announced on social media. عاجل | مدير مكتب #الجزيرة: قوات الأمن التونسية تقتحم...

Hundreds of Tunisian protesters yesterday demanded the government step down following a sharp spike in COVID-19 cases, accusing both the government and the opposition of corruption and failing to...

Algerian Foreign Ministry has said that accepting Israel as an observer state of the African Union will not affect the organisation's support for Palestine. In a statement, the ministry...

It's not that long ago that people were preoccupied with the hacking of some social media sites, including those believed to be immune from such things, such as Facebook,...

An Egyptian court yesterday requested that Interpol issue an arrest notice for prominent contractor Mohamed Ali and two others for "inciting violence and spreading fake news, and joining a...

Tunisia's President has dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and suspended parliament in what has been described as a 'coup'

The Tunisian army this morning prevented Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi from entering Parliament, while President Kais Saied was seen celebrating his decision to freeze the government. Hours following Saied's...

Ahmed Hafnaoui's victory in the men's 400m freestyle was one of the biggest shocks in the pool in the Games' history

First direct Israeli flight to Morocco

Tunisia recorded 317 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, a daily record since the start of the pandemic, the health ministry said on Saturday, reported Reuters. The ministry...