CAIRO, EGYPT- Two years after the army ousted president Mohamed Morsi, Egypt has regressed into "all-out repression", with activists jailed in a bid to crush dissent, Amnesty International warned on...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ- Iraqi premier Haider al-Abadi has "retired" the army's chief of staff, the most senior officer removed since jihadists overran large parts of the country last year, his spokesman said...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- A rebel mortar attack killed four civilians on Sunday in the Syrian capital as government forces battled Islamic State group jihadists in the northern city of Hasakeh, a monitor...

PORT EL KANTAOUI, TUNISIA- Kaouther Larbi with Camille Bouissou in Tunis- Tunisia said it would arm tourism police and deploy hundreds of reinforcements as authorities moved to boost security after a...

SKHIRAT, MOROCCO- UN envoy Bernardino Leon called for "a message of hope" as rival Libyan groups met in Morocco on Friday with a view to signing a deal on a unity government. He made the appeal...

PARIS, FRANCE, Fran Blandy- French police questioned a suspected Islamist Saturday about an attack in which the man displayed his boss's severed head, as it emerged he may have sent a "selfie" of the...

BEIRUT, LEBANON, Rita Daou- Kurdish forces drove Islamic State group fighters from the flashpoint Syrian border town of Kobane on Saturday, after a killing spree by the jihadists left more than 200...

BEIRUT, LEBANON, Rana Moussaoui- The Islamic State group killed 164 civilians in its offensive on the Kurdish town of Kobane, in what a monitor Friday called one of the jihadists' "worst massacres"...

ANKARA, TURKEY, Fulya Ozerkan- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday dismissed as "propaganda" accusations that Islamic State fighters had been allowed to cross from Turkey into Syria to...