An Egyptian court declared void on Tuesday a maritime border accord with Saudi Arabia that would have seen Egypt lose control of two Red Sea islands, judicial sources said. The state has the right to appeal the ruling at a higher court, and the accord must also be approved by parliament....

 Egypt's former president Mohamed Mursi was handed another life sentence on Saturday, after a court found him guilty of espionage and leaking state secrets. Mursi, leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, has already been sentenced in three other cases, including the death penalty for a...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior official in European Parliament received the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Party Leader Salah Demirtas in Brussels on Tuesday. They walked in the corridors of the parliament whose walls carried flags of Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units...

 Islamic State is committing the crime of genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, seeking to destroy the ethno-religious group of 400,000 people through killings, sexual slavery and other crimes, United Nations investigators said on Thursday. Their report, based on interviews with...