An airport security official says Egyptian authorities have banned a prominent human rights activist, who heads a center investigating police abuses, from leaving the country. Aida Seif el-Dawla, a psychiatrist and co-founder of the Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence,...

Extending U.S. sanctions on Iran for 10 years would breach the Iranian nuclear agreement, Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said Wednesday, warning that Tehran would retaliate if the sanctions are approved. "The current U.S. government has breached the nuclear deal in many occasions,"...

The Islamic State group's media arm says an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition has "disabled" the fourth bridge on the Tigris River in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The Aamaq news agency says the strike happened Wednesday but gave no details. It's the second airstrike to target...

Egypt's president has expressed support for Syrian President Bashar Assad's military in remarks likely to irk Saudi Arabia and Gulf Arab allies who back Syrian rebels in the civil war. Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said in an interview with the Portuguese TV network RTP that Syrian government forces...