Conjoined twin girls born in the blockaded Gaza Strip were separated in "successful" surgery in Riyadh Monday, the state-run Saudi Press Agency said in a statement. Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Rabiah, who headed the team that operated on Farah and Haneen at the King Abdullah...

The U.N. migration agency has raised the probable death toll to 64 in the weekend sinking of a smugglers' rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya. The Italian coast guard, hours after the boat started sinking Saturday due to a puncture, rescued 86 people from it and retrieved...

Egyptian officials say two policemen have been taken into custody after the death of a detainee sparked clashes in the capital. Dozens of protesters tried to storm a police station in Cairo's Mokattam neighborhood on Saturday after a detainee held on drug-related suspicions died in...

A total of 71 people have been killed in a week of violence in Nigeria's Benue state, a government spokesman said Monday, much of it involving clashes between Muslim cattle herders and Christian farmers. The killings endanger efforts by President Muhammadu Buhari to bring security and...