The World Food Programme executive director says a lack of funds is hampering efforts to provide urgent support to Mauritanians and refugees fleeing instability in Mali.

In a bid to capitalize on some recent battle successes in Iraq, Baghdad leaders told a top U.S. general Tuesday that they will move to improve coordination between the country’s disparate and sometimes warring factions battling Islamic...

Saudi Sheikh Mohamed Al-Arifi announced on his Facebook page, that he decided to postpone his upcoming lecture in Morocco, scheduled for October 25 in Rabat. The annulation came apparently after a massive wave of critics by Moroccan...

By Colin Freeman  Libyan officials have hinted that they would be reluctant to allow two newly identified suspects in the Lockerbie bombing to be extradited to Scotland, saying they would prefer any trial to take place in...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flew into Moscow on Tuesday for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during which the two men discussed their joint military campaign against Islamist militants in Syria, a Kremlin spokesman said.

After rockets fired from Gaza landed in an empty field in southern Israel before dawn on Sunday, Israel carried out two air strikes in the Strip, claiming to have hit two Hamas arms factories.

At least 70 hotels have closed in Tunisia since September after two deadly attacks on foreign tourists, and more are expected to follow suit, an industry official said on Sunday.

By Matsumoto Shoji Président de l’Institut de Sapporo pour la solidarité Internationale Professeur de Droit International et droit comparé , University of Sapporo Gakuin We were not only surprised, but also disappointed on how a western country...

Tunisia has extended its state of emergency for two more months, the presidency said on Friday, in a security crackdown launched after an Islamist militant shot dead 39 people at a seaside tourist hotel in June.

The United States Embassy in Cairo says the U.S. is delivering eight newer F-16 warplanes to Egypt as part of an ongoing military support package.