Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle migration — have ramped up expulsions of sub-Saharan Africans.

According to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), as many as 613 Nigerian people were forcibly asked to leave Libya following which they arrived in the desert town of Dirkou in Niger in

The Arab Spring did not bring democracy to the region, but it remains a beacon of hope for struggling Arabs.

Tunisia announced its ratification of an agreement to establish a mechanism for consultation on shared groundwater in the northern desert, with Libya and Algeria, pursuant to a decision published in the Official Gazette of Tunisia.

No fewer than 613 Nigerien migrants have been forcibly deported from Libya, enduring what has been described as a "dangerous

Global oil and gas drilling contractor Nabors has announced it will add a third drilling rig to the Waha oil field in Libya's Sirte Basin. Expected to start operation in the coming weeks, the rig adds to the company's current fleet of two rigs operating on the field.

Italy's ITA Airways resumed direct flights to Libya's Tripoli on Sunday, the first airline from a major west European nation to do so after a 10-year hiatus due to civil war in the north African country,

Regime change in Syria will continue to bubble and cause hecatombs in the Arab periphery for years to come. The impact on the Maghreb is unavoidable.

The ruins of Ptolemais are in the modern-day city of Tolmeita, Libya. The country sits along the Mediterranean Sea in North Africa and borders Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Niger, Sudan and Tunisia. Google Translate was used to translate the news release from the University of Warsaw.

Italy took the Turkey model and applied it to North Africa, pledging hundreds of millions of euros to Tunisia and Libya, the main departure points. “It came down to money,” said an EU ...

Russia has lost a naval base after Syria ended an investment contract with Moscow, asserting its authority over the Tartus port.

Tuesday, January 14, marks 14 years since the fall of Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, which sparked one of the most monumental chain of events ever seen in the Middle East. Ben Ali, who seized power in Tunisia in 1987 in a bloodless coup d’état,