Iran's supreme leader told visiting Japanese prime minister on Thursday he does not consider US President Donald Trump "worthy" of exchanging messages with. "We have no doubt in your good will and seriousness but regarding what you said the US president told you, I don't consider Trump as a...

Israeli aircraft attacked a Hamas target in Gaza Thursday after a Palestinian rocket strike, the Israeli military said, in the first serious cross-border flare-up since a surge in fighting last month. The latest hostilities followed Israel's closure of offshore waters to Gaza fisherman on...

Iran has no intention of making or using nuclear weapons, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying Thursday by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. "Supreme Leader Khamenei made a comment that the country will not and should not make, hold or use nuclear weapons,...

An Egyptian military court Wednesday sentenced nearly 300 people to prison terms, including some who in 2014 attempted to attack President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, security sources said. Thirty-two were sentenced to life in prison, which is 25 years in Egypt, while 264 were jailed for terms of...