Latest Region News
Tunisia’s Jomaa, technocrat PM tasked with ending crisis
Tasked with forming an interim government of technocrats and overseeing fresh elections
Syria opposition under pressure to attend ‘Geneva 2’ talks
Syria's main rebel groups have warned opponents against attending the talks and…
Tunisia Islamist PM set to step down as unrest mounts
The Islamist Ennahda party has been under mounting pressure to relinquish the…
Tunisia police, protesters clash in deprived region
The region is one of the poorest in Tunisia and was a…
Tunisia charter to uphold equality, freedom of opinion
The Islamists also agreed in recent months to drop their insistence on…
Blast kills Libya courthouse guard: officials
A security official speaking on condition of anonymity said Monday's bomb was…
Tunisia votes for gender equality in new charter
They are equal before the law without discrimination," states article 20 of…
African asylum seekers protest Israel detention laws
Demonstrators sharply criticised the authorities' refusal to give them refugee status and…
ISIL claims bombing in Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold
The army said Saturday that a young man from northern Lebanon was…