Sixteen militants were killed and 4 others arrested in a major crackdown launched by Egypt on Friday, the Egyptian army said in a statement carried by state TV early on Sunday. Another 30 suspects were arrested, it said. The Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Nov....

A Palestinian youth was injured on Friday in clashes with the Israeli army in the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Nablus.  Clashes erupted in the village of Mazraa al-Gharbiya north of Ramallah in the central West Bank, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent in the...

A Hamas delegation headed by group leader Ismail Haniyeh set out from the blockaded Gaza Strip for Cairo on Friday to meet Egyptian officials. According to group spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, the delegation includes Hamas Political Bureau members Khalil al-Hayya, Rawhi Mushtaha and...

BENGHAZI, Libya: An explosion took place at a mosque in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, residents said. There was no immediate word on casualties. Two weeks ago, around 35 people were killed by a twin bombing at a mosque in the same city.