An explosive charge went off on Monday outside a court complex in downtown  Cairo  – for which a shadowy group has claimed responsibility – amid conflicting reports of casualties. A group calling itself "The Revolutionary Punishment" said on Twitter that its members had...

The Egyptian government said Monday that 33,247 Egyptians had returned home from next-door  Libya since Feb. 16. In statements to Egyptian state television, Al-Anani Hammouda, security chief in Egypt's Matrouh province, said that some 787 Egyptians had returned home via the Salloum...

The United States and  Israel  showed signs of seeking to defuse tensions on Sunday ahead of a speech in Washington by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he will warn against a possible nuclear deal with Iran. Policy differences over the negotiations...

(Reuters) - A drone attack killed two suspected al Qaeda militants in the southern Yemeni province of Shabwa on Monday, local residents told Reuters, the latest in a series of strikes in the country gripped by political turmoil. The attack targeted militants traveling in a vehicle in...