Saudi Arabia raced on Sunday to restart operations at oil plants hit by drone attacks which slashed its production by half, as Iran dismissed US claims it was behind the assault.

Syrian troops shelled the south of Idlib on Sunday, according to rescuers and residents in the rebel stronghold where a ceasefire had halted a fierce army offensive two weeks ago.

The wife of Tunisia's late president Beji Caid Essebsi died on Sunday, as Tunisians were voting to elect his successor less than two months after his death.

Iran dismissed accusations by the United States that it was behind attacks on Saudi oil plants that risk disrupting global energy supplies

Rarely has the outcome of an election been so uncertain in Tunisia, the cradle and partial success story of the Arab Spring

Zimbabwe gave former president Robert Mugabe a state funeral yesterday with African leaders paying tribute to a man lauded as a liberation hero but whose 37-year rule was defined by repression and economic turmoil.

Drone attacks launched by Yemeni rebels on Saudi oil facilities yesterday have exposed the threat to critical infrastructure in the kingdom.

Yemen's Houthi group on Saturday attacked two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry, including the world's biggest petroleum processing facility, in a strike that three sources said ...

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group on Saturday attacked two Saudi Aramco plants, including the world's biggest oil processing facility, sparking fires in the latest flare up of violence in the Gulf.

Tunisia’s presidential election tomorrow is the most unpredictable in its short experience of democracy, a contest with no overwhelming front-runner at a time of economic angst.

Tunisia will hold on Sunday its second free presidential election by universal suffrage since the 2011 uprising that toppled an autocratic regime, with growing uncertainty over who will reach the next round.

Jailed Tunisian media mogul, Nabil Karoui, one of the front-runners in the country’s presidential polls this weekend, started a hunger strike yesterday to protest his imprisonment, a source in his campaign said.