President Abdelaziz Bouteflika appeared on television Sunday for the first time since a visit by Germany's chancellor was called off last month because of the Algerian leader's ailing health. State...
Mahmud Abbas will meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Monday with ties strained between them and ahead of the Palestinian leader's talks with Donald Trump in Washington. The...
Somalia has called on the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen to investigate an incident in which dozens of Somali refugees were shot dead on board a boat. It was not immediately clear who was...
Khalifa Haftar's east Libyan forces have claimed capture of the final holdout of hardline armed forces in the southwest of Benghazi, ending weeks of resistance by fighters camped in a group of tower...
A quartet of international groups said Saturday it supported efforts by Libya's unity government to assert control over Tripoli after days of fighting with rival militias. The Cairo meeting by...
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he hopes recent meetings with US President Donald Trump's team lead to "peace" between Israelis and Palestinians. Trump called the Palestinian president...
Arab League foreign ministers adopted a resolution Tuesday against any attempt to move diplomatic missions to Jerusalem, following Donald Trump's presidential campaign pledge to move the American...
The president of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika has designated the Speaker of the People’s National Assembly (Lower House of Parliament) Dr Mohamed Larbi Ould Khelifa to represent him in the...
He was sworn by Prez of Supreme Court in front of legislators A little more on the opening of the Somali parliament: Hassan Ali Kheyre has been confirmed as prime minister and sworn in. Mr Kheyre...
A senior Palestinian official has been denied entry to Egypt, prompting a Palestinian delegation to withdraw in protest from a counter-terrorism conference he was to attend, officials said Tuesday....
Hassan Ali Kheyre, a former aid worker and oil executive, was named prime minister of Somalia on Thursday by the country's new President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. Mohamed, popularly known as...
The Arab League condemned on Wednesday an Israeli court sentence of 18 months in prison for a soldier who shot dead a wounded Palestinian assailant, saying it reflected "racism". The military court...
Since the start of Syria's war in 2011, several diplomatic initiatives have stumbled over the future of President Bashar al-Assad. Here is a recap: In January 2012, two months after an initial bid to...
Somalia's Shabaab extremists claimed a mortar strike that left two children dead near the presidential palace Thursday during a handover ceremony at which new President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed...
Donald Trump's shelving of the decades-long goal of a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict has excited Israelis and alarmed Palestinians and Arabs, but no-one is quite sure what it means....
Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Thursday resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would require a two-state solution, a day after Washington signalled it would drop that demand. Abul...
US President Donald Trump has dropped decades of US policy insisting on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At a news conference with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Trump...
Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Monday started his first visit to Cairo since his election in October and held talks with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. "Hopes of the role that...
President Trump's travel ban on the citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries has created confusion and concern across the Middle East and parts of Asia. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation,...
Security remains a cardinal principle for all citizens that they move and act in the social fabric. Our age, defined by many as postmodern, has many aspects of continuous development. Acting...
