(Reuters) - Republican Governor Rick Scott of Florida narrowly won re-election on Tuesday, defeating Democrat Charlie Crist in an expensive contest in which turnout was low in Crist's south Florida stronghold. Scott, 61, addressed supporters in Bonita Springs on the southwest...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's most active militant group, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, denied in a Twitter message on Tuesday that it had pledged allegiance to Islamic State and it distanced itself from a statement that appeared in its name online. A statement purporting...

(Reuters) - A gathering of millions of Shi'ite Muslims at shrines and mosques across Iraq for the Ashoura religious commemoration passed without any major attacks on Tuesday, under tight security imposed for fear of Islamic State bombers. Crowds of hundreds of thousands of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime’s Education Ministry decided to halt the salaries of 6,000 teachers in the Kurdish-dominated city of Afrin northern Aleppo, in step to press more pressure on the people of the disputed area, an opposition figure...