Four gunmen charged into a shopping mall in eastern Baghdad on Monday after a car bomb exploded outside, killing at least ten people, two police sources said. The sources said it was not clear if the assailants, who may have been wearing suicide vests, had killed anyone or taken hostages at the...

The condition of a Palestinian journalist on a 48-day hunger strike in an Israeli jail is deteriorating, the man's wife and a Palestinian official said Monday. Mohammed al-Qeq is protesting his six-month sentence without trial or charge, under a measure called administrative detention....

Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda Party became the biggest in parliament after more lawmakers in President Beji Caid Essebsi's Nidaa Tounes party resigned Monday over the role of his son, saying they feared a return of the hereditary transfer of power. The rift does not present an immediate threat...

Al-Qaeda has warned Saudi Arabia it will pay for the executions of dozens of its members, saying they were intended to be a new year's gift to Riyadh's Western allies aimed at consolidating the rule of the Saud dynasty. Though it was the killing of a Shi-ite cleric in the Jan. 2 mass...