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Zeinab Ltaif, a mother of six children, was actively participating in protests against Sweden's social services before she fled the country with her children. One year on, the family, which...

France denied yesterday the existence of a crisis with Morocco, stressing that the partnership between the two countries is "exceptional." The remark came in response to criticism by Moroccan...

Members of a bipartisan delegation of seven US Senators who visited the four signatory countries of the 2020 Abraham Accords, namely the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Morocco and...

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank from Sunday to Tuesday to discuss heightened tensions between Israelis and Palestinians as well...

Egyptologists have uncovered a Pharaonic tomb near the capital, Cairo, containing what may be the oldest and "most complete" mummy yet to be discovered in the country, the excavation...

US senators from the Democratic Party are claiming there is no contradiction between the Abraham Accords and the two-state compromise over Palestine-Israel. If we consider the two-state diplomacy to...

France has promised to speed up the handover of its colonial archives to Algeria, and to clean up the sites where it conducted nuclear tests in the Sahara Desert...

The head of the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema (Islamic scholars), Abdul-Razzaq Qassoum, has criticised those who only condemn manifestations of Islamophobia and attacks on religious sanctities, such as...

The envoy of the UN Secretary-General in Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, has announced that he is visiting Algeria as part of a tour of Libya's neighbours to seek support for...

The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) arrived unannounced in Tripoli on 12 January for a brief visit that lasted just a few hours. In the first...

Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) will sign offshore gas exploration and production deals with Italy's Eni, Reuters reports. According to the report, the deal would require $8 billion to...

Somalia's Information Minister, Daud Aweis, said Wednesday that the national army (SNA) with support from local militias has killed 323 Al-Shabaab terrorists in seven days, Anadolu News Agency reports....

Egyptian archeologists have discovered a 1,800 year old Roman city on the banks of the River Nile. The discovery was one of several made recently in the city of Luxor, known in antiquity as Thebes, and the Egyptian government will be hoping for an increase in tourism following the many years of unrest faced by the North African country.

The Defence of former Tunisian Prime Minister, Ali Laarayedh, revealed that shocking facts will reverse his case and will be revealed in the coming days, after more than a...

Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, and visiting Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, on Wednesday discussed bilateral relations and agreed to boost trade, Anadolu News Agency reports. Addressing a press...

On Wednesday, Al-Azhar Al-Sharif urged the Arab and Islamic nations to boycott all Dutch and Swedish products of any kind, "in support of the Holy Qur'an". In a statement,...

Today marks the anniversary of the 2011 uprising, when millions of Egyptians took to the streets to demand President Hosni Mubarak stand down from power after 30 years. #٢٥_يناير...

The words uttered in Hebrew by a person believed to be Avera Mengistu, an Israeli soldier of Ethiopian origin who was captured and held in Gaza in 2014, are...

On Sunday, the shares of Juhayna Food Industries jumped by 9.95 per cent, hours after its founder and former CEO and his son were released from prison after spending...

US Assistant Secretary of State Michele Sison has expressed Washington's support for a "political solution" in Western Sahara. Sison made her comment after meeting Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra...

Mauritanian scholar Mohamed El-Hassan Ould-Dedew has said that Sweden and Swedish goods must be boycotted after a copy of the Holy Qur'an was burned outside the Turkish Embassy in...

Algeria witnessed rare snowfall on Tuesday in a number of desert areas in the south-west of the country. Images published by the Bechar province authorities on Facebook showed "Beni...

The phenomenon of child marriage in Morocco raises a human rights and legal debate, amid human rights demands to find solutions to stop this growing phenomenon. On 4 January,...

Egypt plans to manufacture the first warplane in its history in cooperation with South Korea. Egypt seeks to produce an armed version of Korea's T-50. Egypt is working on...

The 12th anniversary of the 25 January, 2011 Revolution in Egypt has approached and the popularity of the head of the military coup authority, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, is at...

Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, will arrive in New Delhi today where he will be a Chief Guest at India's 74th Republic Day celebrations, following an invitation extended to...

The Egyptian President has rejected criticism that his government has created the economic crisis in the country and, instead, blamed the Russian war and the coronavirus pandemic. At a...

The Israeli economic website, Globes, reported that Saudi Arabia plans to make the islands of Tiran and Sanafir a tourist destination, including hotels and casinos, which Israelis can visit....

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met CIA Director William Burns in Cairo on Monday to discuss security cooperation between the two countries and ways to strengthen it. According to...

The judgements issued against the head of the Dignity Coalition bloc, Seifeddine Makhlouf, the lawyer Mahdi Zaqrouba and several MPs from the coalition have been called "unfair and a...

As we approach the 12th anniversary of Egypt's 25 January 2011 Revolution, the conditions in the country are much worse than they were back then. Today, the Egyptian people...

The Moroccan Parliament has decided to reevaluate its relations with the European Parliament following a joint emergency session of both chambers in Rabat