At least 79 people died when an overloaded ferry carrying families on an outing sank in the Tigris river in Mosul in northern Iraq, medical sources told Reuters on Thursday. Most of the casualties on the ferry were women and children who could not swim, said the head of Mosul’s Civil...

Sudan summoned Egypt's ambassador to Khartoum on Thursday to protest Cairo's "illegal" call for oil and gas exploration bids in the Red Sea area of Halayeb, claimed by both countries. Egypt's control of the Halayeb triangle, which lies in a mineral-rich border region, has for decades been a...

Israeli authorities shut down a French cultural center in Jerusalem Thursday, alleging it was to host an event involving an association supported by the Palestinian Authority. In a rare move, police entered the center in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem and ordered it closed until further...

A Palestinian was killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medics said, and the military announced on Thursday that a soldier had discharged his weapon and it was reviewing the incident. The Palestinian Red Crescent said one of its crews treated a man with two bullet...