Middle East

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said he was pressing members of the UN Security Council, including Russia, to condemn the…

A member of the leadership of Libya's UN-backed government who is close to powerful rival factions in the east of…

The death penalty has failed to reduce drug trafficking in Iran, a senior Iranian judiciary official said on Saturday shortly…

Rebels supported by Turkey fought Kurdish-backed forces in northern Syria on Saturday, as Ankara ratcheted up its cross-border offensive by…

A gas cylinder exploded on Saturday inside a building in the western Alexandrian neighborhood of El-Max, causing the collapse of…

On Saturday, the South Banha Criminal Court upheld its decision to release human rights lawyer, Malek Adly, after refusing an appeal…

The weather this Sunday is expected to be hot and fairly humid in Cairo and Egypt’s northern cities, and moderate on the…

The brother of a 13-year-old boy who made the perilous crossing from Egypt to Italy by boat last week to get…

Tunisia's new government won a confidence vote late on Friday after the Prime Minister Youssef Chahed warned in Parliament an…

A US Navy ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian fast-attack craft that approached two US ships, a Pentagon spokesman…