Egypt and Sudan, which face cross-border threats from militias operating in Libya, agreed Sunday to set up joint military patrols on their border, Sudan's chief of staff said following talks between the countries' defence ministers. Libya, with which Egypt and Sudan have a joint border,...

An Egyptian court Sunday upheld death sentences for nine people convicted of the murder of a top prosecutor in a car bombing three years ago, a judiciary source said. Hisham Barakat was killed in June 2015 when a bomb struck his convoy in Cairo after jihadist calls for attacks on the...

The partial reopening of Baghdad's high-security Green Zone to through traffic, planned for Sunday, has been postponed for several days, a government official said. The enclave has been home to Iraq's parliament, government offices, United Nations agencies and western embassies since...

Israeli police arrested the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem for the second time in as many months, a spokesman said Sunday, after reports of an investigation related to a land sale. Adnan Gheith was arrested in east Jerusalem overnight, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said in a...