North Africa

The April 6 Youth Movement said Saturday its founder, Ahmed Maher, who is in jail for breaking protest laws, started a hunger strike last...

Tunis - Tunisian police killed two Islamist militants near the Algerian border in exchange of fire, the government said on Friday, two weeks after...

Tunis - Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said on Friday it was responsible for a recent attack on the home of Tunisia's interior minister...

Cairo - A policeman was killed in one of several small Islamist protests that erupted across Egypt on Friday, days after former army chief...

Egypt has asked YouTube to remove a video of a woman being sexually assaulted during a rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square supporting the country's...

An Egyptian court acquitted the former interior minister under longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak of charges of corruption and money laundering Thursday, a judicial official...

Cairo - An Egyptian court jailed prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a symbol of the 2011 revolt against Hosni Mubarak, for 15 years on...

CAIRO, June 10 (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has ordered the interior minister to fight sexual harassment following the arrest of seven...

A disturbing video which appears to show a woman being stripped naked and sexually assaulted in Egypt's Tahrir Square has been widely viewed and...

Ex-army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has been sworn in as Egypt's new president after a landslide win in May elections. He said his election...