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Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni was jailed for two years on appeal Tuesday, a defence lawyer said, in a case seen as a barometer of press freedom in the North African country.  Drareni, 40, has been in custody since March and was sentenced in August to three years...

Protesters in Libya's second city Benghazi set fire to the headquarters of the parallel eastern administration controlled by strongman Khalifa Haftar, a security source said Sunday. "In the early hours of Sunday, a group of demonstrators attacked the cabinet...

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Monday for a knife attack in Tunisia which killed one National Guard officer and wounded another, as security forces rounded up more suspects. The attack on Sunday morning in a tourist district of the coastal city of...

Egyptian human rights groups on Saturday accused the authorities of "recycling" judicial cases against dissidents to prolong their periods of detention. "Recycling cases occurs when a new case is brought by the prosecution against someone who has already been released...