Paris terror attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has refused to return to his trial in Belgium this week over a shootout with police in Brussels that led to his capture, the court said Tuesday. The fresh show of defiance comes after Abdeslam berated judges for being anti-Muslim,...

 Yemeni forces loyal to the country's internationally recognized government Tuesday recaptured a key crossroads town in the southwestern province of Hudaida in an effort to cut off supply lines to the Shiite rebels, officials said. The forces backed by airstrikes from an Arab-led...

Egypt's prosecutor general has launched an investigation into leading opposition figures who have called for a boycott of next month's presidential election, over accusations they are attempting to "overthrow the regime." Nabil Sadeq's office in a statement late Monday said it had...

A Palestinian man wanted over the murder last month of a rabbi near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank has been killed, Israel's Shin Bet security service said Tuesday. Ahmad Jarrar was killed in the northern West Bank town of Yamoun where he had been hiding, the agency said,...