Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the closure of Israel's embassy in Paraguay, his office said, after the South American country announced Wednesday it was moving its mission back to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem. "The prime minister has asked the foreign ministry to close the...

A Jordanian court has sentenced an alleged Daesh (ISIS) member to 20 years of hard labor for a 2016 attack on security forces, an AFP correspondent at the trial said. The 25-year-old was charged with acquiring automatic weapons along with his two brothers and turning their house in...

Iraqi security forces sprayed tear gas and fired into the air to try to disperse thousands of protesters on Wednesday in the southern city of Basra, in some of the worst unrest in the region for months. The deaths of five protesters in clashes with security forces on Tuesday added to...

Egyptian security officials say they are investigating a suspected explosive device near the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy in the heart of Cairo, Egypt's capital. They say the device was spotted Tuesday outside the concrete barriers that encircle the embassy and the ambassador's...