Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir wrapped up a two-day visit to Cairo yesterday evening during which he met his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. During the visit, the two heads...

Authorities in eastern Libya will allow revenues from rising oil production to be paid into the central bank in Tripoli even though they do not recognise the bank's governor...

Libya's Presidency Council (PC) has condemned the attack by armed forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Hafter on the home of House of Representatives (HoR) member Amer Omran. The...

A Bunyan Marsous (BM) commander has blasted the United States for its "useless" airstrikes in Sirte saying that if Washington had really wanted to it could have liberated Sirte...

Algeria has been commended by the United Kingdom (UK) for "leading the way" in the fight against violent extremism. Visiting Algiers yesterday the UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State...

The second of two Mistral-class Landing Helicopter Doc (LHD) warships France has sold to Egypt arrived in Alexandria yesterday on the 43rd anniversary of the 6 October War. Forty-three...

The Ministry of Interior in Egypt has denied Coptic activists a permit to protest in front of the state television building Maspero on the five-year anniversary of the Maspero...

Moroccans head to the polls today in the second parliamentary election since the king devolved some powers in a constitutional reform five years ago to ease Arab Spring protests...

The National Federation of Travel Agencies of Morocco (FNAVM) yesterday decided to boycott Umrah trips following a Saudi decision to impose a fee of 2,000 riyals ($533) on any...

Egyptians are up in arms as gas prices continue to rise in the country and black market sellers flood the market. Al-Shorouk newspapers quoted residents as saying that black...

A new report released by Human Rights Watch, Thursday, shed new light on the brutal torture methods that the CIA – the US' main external spy agency – used...

Professor of Constitutional Law in El Manar University Qais Said has ruled out "possible disengagement" between Tunisia's Ennahda party and Nidaa Tounes, Quds Press reported yesterday. Said considered the...

In the three years since Egypt's bloody military coup, the Muslim Brotherhood has seen at least 30 prominent members succumb to illnesses in prison or gunned down by security...

The Egyptian regime has a plan to assassinate opponents living abroad, the head of the Ghad party alleged yesterday. "The idea advocated by Asim Hanafi a year ago to...

It is 28 years since Algeria's "Black October" that has defined Algeria's socio-political discourse ever since. Accepted as Algeria's second most defining date after independence in 1962, 5 October...

Over the past week, there has been an intensification of statements made by prominent Ennahda officials firmly denying tension between their leader, Rashid Al-Ghannouchi, and Tunisian President Beji Caid...

The Tunisian General Labour Union said yesterday that it would "absolutely" reject any attempt by Prime Minister Youssef Chahed's government to freeze public sector wage increases, saying any such...

During an interview on Al-Jazeera, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, has expressed her optimism about the Egyptian economy. "The measures that the Egyptian authorities...

The Federal Committee of Sudanese Doctors is planning a nationwide strike today to demand higher wages, protection from security forces and better services at government hospitals. More than 350...

From 5-11 October 1988, 500 people were killed and more than a 1,000 were injured

An Egyptian female advocacy group have attacked comments made by parliamentarian Elhamy Agina who called for virginity tests to be made mandatory to women applying for university. Head of...

The war was a victory against Israel and led to the regaining of the Sinai Peninsula

Algeria invited the head of the Libyan National Agreement government Fayid Al-Sarraj to visit after France hosted a meeting to discuss Libya, the Anadolu Agency reported. The Algerian daily...

A number of officials from the state-owned Egyptian radio and Television Union (ERTU) have been referred to a disciplinary court after they aired an old interview with the country's...

Yesterday, the governing military authority of Egypt added a new crime to the series of crimes it committed since staging the coup in July 2013. They assassinated Muslim Brotherhood...

The Gaza Strip's electricity company announced yesterday evening that the Egyptian power lines feeding the southern part of the besieged enclave were back in operation after being disconnected due to damage....

Pro-government Libyan forces backed by US airstrikes are making advances in Sirte, Daesh's stronghold in the country. The campaign to rid the city of Daesh has been ongoing for...

Amnesty International has called on the Egyptian government to retry six civilians sentenced to death in an "unfair trial" by a militarily court. The imprisoned Egyptians were subjected to...

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood group has called for an international investigation into the killing of a senior group leader in a police raid. Egyptian security forces shot dead Mohamed Kamal,...

Supporters of Fatah movement stage a demonstration in support of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who was criticized after he attended the funeral ceremony held for former Israeli President Shimon Peres, in Ramallah, West Bank on October 4, 2016.

The Arab League Council is to hold an extraordinary meeting of its permanent members today to discuss the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Permanent Representative...

A very important international human rights report was published a few days ago by America's Human Rights Watch. Called "We live in tombs", it took many months to prepare...