Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party announced on Friday it has accepted an ambitious roadmap proposed by mediators to form a government of technocrats and resolve a two-month-old political crisis. “Ennahda announces after examining the proposal… its acceptance and demands that a serious national dialogue is launched to get the country out …

Former US Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson said the US will continue to pressure Egypt to achieve democracy, implement the roadmap and form a new civil elected cabinet. Patterson told the House committee on Foreign Affairs that the Middle

The United States said Thursday that comments by Iranian President Hassan Rowhani had opened up a possible new path for diplomacy, and urged Tehran to engage “substantively” with the West.