CAIRO (Reuters)- Sudan will send its ambassador back to neighbouring Egypt on Monday, Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour said, two months after withdrawing him amid heightened tensions. Khartoum has not explained why it recalled Abdel Mahmoud Abdel Halim early in January. But disputes...

Egypt’s president said Thursday that he considered any defamation of the country’s security forces to be “high treason” and would not allow it, in an apparent warning to the media. Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s warning came as security forces enter the fourth week of a campaign...

Iraq's parliament demanded Thursday that the government set a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign troops stationed in the country to help fight Daesh (ISIS), a ruling coalition lawmaker told Reuters. "Parliament voted on a decision to thank friendly nations for their support in...

Two officers have been killed in an ongoing Egyptian army campaign against militant groups based in the Sinai Peninsula, according to a Thursday army statement. The statement, which was broadcast on state television, did not say how the officers had been killed except to say they were...