Egypt's top appeals court Tuesday upheld death sentences for 13 members of a disbanded militant group who were convicted of launching attacks on security forces, a judicial source and lawyer said. The 13 had appealed to the Court of Cassation after a Cairo criminal court handed them the...

British Prime Minister Theresa May faced renewed pressure Tuesday from lawmakers in her Conservative Party to abandon efforts to seek a Brexit compromise deal with the opposition Labor Party. After several weeks of fruitless negotiations, senior Conservative and Labor lawmakers resumed...

Iran's top security body dismissed as "psychological warfare" a U.S. announcement that a carrier strike group and bombers are being sent to the Middle East as a message to Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Tuesday. U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said on...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) called Tuesday for the release of more than 3,000 migrants, mainly Ethiopians, who it said remain held in inhumane conditions in two detention centres in southern Yemen. The detentions began two weeks ago in the city of Aden and the...