A 13-year-old Iraqi girl’s home burned after she criticized the governor of a central Iraq province in a televised interview, her father and police said on Saturday. Rawan Salem Hussein challenged Governor Sadiq Madlool al-Sultani to an on-air debate on his contributions to “the cultural...
Five Egyptian soldiers were killed Saturday when their armored vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the northern Sinai Peninsula, a security source has told Anadolu Agency. According to the source, the incident occurred south of the North Sinai city of Sheikh Zuweid. Since Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's...
Germany's foreign minister pressed for progress on a year-old peace plan for eastern Ukraine as he met Saturday with senior officials from Russia, Ukraine and France, saying he hopes that Moscow and Kiev realize that they don't have forever to implement the deal. Germany's Frank-Walter...
Iraq's influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is calling for the inclusion of more technocrats in government and is threatening to withdraw from the political process if his proposal is not accepted. Al-Sadr spoke Saturday following Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's call for a Cabinet...
