Egypt's largest bloc in parliament, Support Egypt Coalition, on Sunday submitted a request to the assembly to amend the country's constitution, according to the official MENA news agency.  Abdelhadi al-Qasabi, head of the bloc which holds 317 seats in the 596-member assembly, lodged...

Turkey will provide around $5 billion in loans for the reconstruction of Iraq, the foreign minister said on Sunday. “We made the biggest commitment to Iraq,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told a meeting organized by the Beyoglu Municipality in Istanbul. “We will provide $5 billion credit,”...

Delegations from Palestinian resistance groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad left the Gaza Strip for Cairo on Sunday for talks with Egyptian officials.  Led by group leader Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas delegation crossed the Rafah border crossing into Egyptian territory, a Palestinian security...

The United States marked the 40th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution by highlighting what it says are the "broken promises" of the Middle Eastern country's leadership. Tehran launched celebrations Friday to mark the 1979 return from exile of the Islamic republic's founder Ayatollah...