A British woman convicted in Egypt of smuggling painkillers has been granted early release after spending more than a year in prison, an Egyptian security source said Monday. Laura Plummer, 34, was arrested at Hurghada airport and sentenced in December 2017 to three years in prison...

The longtime head of the world's Yazidis, a minority whose Iraqi community was ferociously targeted by Daesh (ISIS), has died in Germany after a long illness, officials said Monday. Prince Tahseen Said Ali died in the KRH Siloah hospital in Hanover at the age of 85, according to the...

The number of Jews murdered in anti-Semitic attacks around the world in 2018 reached its "highest" level in decades after a mass shooting at a US synagogue, an Israeli government report said Sunday. A total of 13 Jews were killed in three separate attacks over the year, according to the...

Israel's prime minister warned the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah of his army's "lethal" power on Sunday, in reaction to Hassan Nasrallah cautioning the Jewish state against further strikes in Syria. "The lethal striking force of the IDF (Israeli army) stands facing Hezbollah," Israel's...