German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, her office said late Friday. The two leaders discussed recent international developments, particularly in Syria and Ukraine, German government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer said in a statement. Merkel...

German prosecutors Friday announced war crimes charges against a female member of Daesh (ISIS) who let a five-year-old girl die of thirst in the scorching sun. While living in then Daesh-occupied Mosul, Iraq, the 27-year-old German citizen identified only as Jennifer W. and her husband...

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man during the latest of weekly protests along the border with Israel Friday, Palestinian health officials said. Karam Fayyad, 26, was killed east of the Gaza city of Khan Yunis, Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qodra told AFP....

A roadside bomb hit a tourist bus Friday in an area near the Giza pyramids, killing two Vietnamese tourists and an Egyptian tour guide and wounding 11 other people, Egypt’s Interior Ministry said in a statement. It said the bus was traveling in the Marioutiyah area near the pyramids when the...