When the United Nations commemorated International Day of Peace last week, the celebrations were marred by news of widespread rage in the Islamic world, a continued bloody civil war in Syria, suicide...

Half of the violence against women in Morocco comes from their own husbands, a situation that needs to change, a minister from the North African nation said Monday....

The author, storyteller and poet John Row British hosted a training workshop and introduction to the English language for children, using storytelling in Algiers on Saturday....

Mali and the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) have signed an "agreement" on the conditions for the deployment of an African force in Mali, with headquarters in Bamako yesterday Mali AFP and...

The Moroccan Istiqlal (Independence) party, part of the current ruling coalition, elected deputy mayor of Fez Hamid Chabat as its leader on Sunday, according to AFP....

Egypt’s leader should define the Muslim mainstream and speak out against the extremists, The Economist says. The violence directed at American...

Mohammed Magarief has called on all militias not affiliated to Libya's armed forces to disband or submit to military authority and the control of the central government....

The Higher Committee of Co-ordination between the parties of the governmental coalition called for speeding up the pace of drafting the constitution and broadening consultation on "contentious...

The UN is holding a summit this week on the Sahel convened by the Secretary General Ban –Ki Moon. The destabilizing effects of the terrorist threat are being felt not just in northern Mali but the...

Gafsa region in the south of Tunisia was once an oasis; today the phosphate industry has plunged it into a water crisis.“This summer for the first time we had water cuts on a daily basis,” says...

The UN special rapporteur on torture said on Saturday that the inhumane treatment of Moroccan detainees appeared to be "very frequent," and deplored the rise in the use of excessive force to quell...

Police protestors and army units stormed the heqdquarters of the Ansar al-Sharia brigade which has been accused of the attack on the US Embassy forcing them to flee. they also foced out the Sahaty...

US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton met with Tunisia's Foreign Minister Rafif Abdessalem in Washington yesterday. it was their first meeting since the attacks on the American Embassy and the...

The President spoke on the 52nd anniversary of Mali's independence recalling the tragedy of the division of Mali with rebel forces in the North dividing the country and forcing Sharia on the...

Mustapha Ben Jaffar,Speaker of the Constituent Assembly and Rachid Ghannouchi head of Ennhada have condemned Salafist violence and reassured the Tunisian people and investors that the police will now...

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) called on Thursday for a global action against the incitement to hatred after the screening of a movie and the publication of cartoons insulting Islam...

The dark rain clouds and circling military helicopter accentuated the mood of the small, sombre crowd gathered in Tripoli’s Martyr’s Square to commemorate Libya’s dead heroes....

The Moroccan employers association is engaging with government and called for a new deal for the growth and competitiveness with concrete and candid responses to the questions and problems posed to...

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on Wednesday criticized France for calling for the "invading" of northern Mali, saying that this could lead to "the deaths of the French hostages" and "further...