The 28 member states of the European Union all backed a decision on Thursday to reject a proposal from the EU executive to add Saudi Arabia to a blacklist of countries suspected of being lax on terrorist financing and money laundering. The decision comes after pressure from Riyadh and other...

Egyptian security forces killed seven suspected militants in two operations in Giza, across the Nile from central Cairo, the interior ministry said on Thursday. Three of the militants had disguised themselves as electricity workers to plant explosives, but were killed in an exchange of fire...

A Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli fire during renewed protests along the Gaza border overnight Thursday, the enclave's health ministry said, with Israel striking a Hamas position in response to the violence. Health ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said Saif al-Deen Abu Zeid,...

At least 36 countries, including all 28 EU members, have signed a statement criticizing Saudi Arabia’s human rights record at the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday, diplomats said. The statement is the first rebuke of the kingdom since the U.N. forum was set up in 2006....