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At least 31 Burkinabe soldiers and three allied volunteer militiamen (VDP) have been killed in an attack by suspected jihadists in the country's north, security sources said Tuesday. Dozens were also killed in a separate attack on Monday, the latest in one of the...

The Algerian authorities have become used to enacting individual or collective punishment anytime they face even the smallest issue. Journalists in prison, political opponents abroad hunted, and now the entire country has been prevented from accessing the Internet...

The United States has been working hard toward a diplomatic rapprochement between Israel and Saudi Arabia. But the aggressive plans on expanding the Israeli settlements into the West Bank, as championed by the hardliner and far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich...

By Marc Burleigh: EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday are to look at ways to press aid on Tunisia in a bid to stem migrant boat departures for Europe. The discussion will come two weeks after a boat believed to have been carrying hundreds of migrants capsized...