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The Algerian army thwarted an attempt by Al-Qaeda militants to smuggle nearly forty rockets in to Mali last week, local newspapers said. Al-Khabar newspaper said the Algerian army confiscated...

Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal called armed groups operating in the Algerian mountains to surrender and return to the "right path". On Wednesday, Algeria's state television quoted Sellal telling representatives...

The Egyptian foreign ministry has summoned the Senegalese ambassador in Cairo to express his protest against a senior official in Senegal using the Rabaa sign in the Senegalese capital...

Some 26 people have been sentenced to death after being accused of establishing and leading a "terrorist cell", a Cairo Criminal Court ruled on Wednesday. The public prosecutor charged...

An Egyptian female student who has recently been released from prison said she was subjected to sexual harassment at the hands of the security personnel. Ayat Hamada, who had...

Egypt has asked South Africa to ban all activities including conferences organised by the Muslim Brotherhood in its territory. Egypt's Alyoum7 newspaper today quoted Egyptian diplomatic sources as saying:...

Four courts sentenced 200 pro-Morsi supporters to a combined prison term of 945 years and fines to the tune of half a million Egyptian pounds on Tuesday. Egyptian security...

Ahmed Imam, a spokesperson for the Strong Egypt Party, headed by former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh, strongly criticised on Tuesday the Beblawi government for not opening any political...

Following the resignation of Egypt's interim Prime Minister Hazem Al-Beblawi on Monday, Egyptian news media reported the potential nomination of Ibrahim Roushdy Mehleb, the Minister of Housing in the...

Egypt's army chief Field Marshall Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, who holds the position of defence minister in the outgoing cabinet, has decided not to run for presidency, according to sources...

The Leader of the Democratic Movement for Construction and Reform (MDER) in Tunisia, Amna Mansour, announced her candidacy for the next presidential elections, making her the first woman in...

A number of Egyptian pro-coup politicians considered the resignation of the interim government as a reaction to pressures from the Minister of Defence Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi to pave the way...

An Egyptian doctor has been sentenced to two years in prison on charges of "inciting riots in hospital, belonging to a banned group and incitement hatred against the army"...

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights (AOHR) said in a press release Monday that it documented the death of 48 prisoners out of torture in Egyptian prisons since the...

The headquarters of the Libyan National Congress has been evacuated Sunday evening after being hit by a shell during one of its sessions, Anadolu news agency reported. No one...

Prime Minister of the military-backed government of Egypt, Hazem Al Beblawy, said Monday his cabinet is resigning, without giving a clear reason. In a press conference, Beblawy said his...

Two Egyptian journalists will stand trial before a military court Monday on charges of leaking an audio recording of an interview with Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi. Monday's trial is...

Tunisia's interim President Moncef Marzouki rejected calls demanding he resign his post if he plans to run in elections saying he believes it's premature to discuss his future plans;...

President Mohammed Morsi was today permitted to make a statement from within the detention cage inside the court, which is presided over by Judge Sha'ban Al-Shami, the head of...

Egypt's ousted president Mohammed Morsi arrived at the Police Academy Saturday morning to attend the second session of the Wadi Al-Natroun jailbreak trial. Morsi along with 130 other co-defendants...

The pro-coup Al-Azhar Sheikh Mazhar Shaheen demanded the application of Sharia against the Muslim Brotherhood by "cutting off their hands, crucifying them, and sending them to exile." In an...

An Alexandria court sentenced on Thursday Jamal Madi, a former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement in Alexandria, to three years in prison and ordered him to pay a...

A US diplomat demanded on Thursday for Egypt to respect freedoms and basic human rights as an Egyptian court started hearing a trial against 20 Al-Jazeera journalists.   US...

"Confronting terrorism is not the task of the armed forces; this is the task of the Ministry of the Interior," Egyptian Defence Minister Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said...

Egyptian military apache helicopters this morning launched several air strikes at bedouin villages in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, near the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Al-Resalah newspaper said....

The Head of Tunisia's Ennahda Islamic movement said on Wednesday that his movement has chosen democracy and the Constitution over power in agreeing to step down from government. Shaikh...

The state of Egypt's economy shows no signs that it will improve any time in the near future, in light of the continued rises in unemployment, inflation and public...

Official investigations into the network of Mossad spies in Egypt have revealed that Ramzy Mohamed Shebini made contact with the Israeli spy agency through the Israeli Embassy in 2009;...

Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper has said that for the first time since the 1980s Egyptian forces have reinforced their presence and started to develop surveillance systems on the border...

The Egyptian army should leave politics, social and economic crisis and go back to its military bases, former nominee for Egyptian presidency Hamdeen Sabahi said on Tuesday. Talking to...

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Egyptian judges to dismiss terrorism-related charges against 20 Al Jazeera journalists and to immediately release those who remain in detention. Three weeks...

The Libyan government has reached a new understanding to address the political situation in the country, Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said. Zeidan's remarks followed threats by Libyan Al-Qaqa...