Turkish Cypriots are voting in a leadership runoff to chose between an incumbent who pledges a course less bound by Turkey’s dictates and a challenger who favors even closer ties to Ankara

Libya’s national oil company announced it is resuming production at the country’s largest oil field as rival officials from eastern and western Libya began peace talks, part of preliminary negotiations ahead a U.N.-brokered dialogue set to take place next month

Sudan’s fragile interim government is sharply divided over normalizing relations with Israel, as it finds itself under intense pressure from the Trump administration to become the third Arab country to do so in short order _ after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain

Kuwait’s Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah has been sworn in as the ruling emir of the tiny oil-rich country

White House adviser Jared Kushner is trumpeting the recent agreement by Israel and the United Arab Emirates to establish diplomatic relations as a historic breakthrough

The United Nations has voiced concern over what it called “a dramatic turn of events” in Libya's civil war, after a power struggle between leaders of the Tripoli-based government surfaced in the wake of anti-corruption protests

Egypt’s election commission says said it will refer to prosecutors voters who didn't take part in elections earlier this month for two-thirds of the Senate, the upper, powerless chamber of the country's Parliament

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has arrived in Sudan, the most senior U.S. official to visit the African country since last year’s ouster of its autocratic leader, Omar al-Bashir

Libya’s U.N.-supported government has announced a cease-fire across the oil-rich country and called for demilitarizing the strategic city of Sirte in an initiative supported by the rival parliament in the country’s east