Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's speech on Wednesday was meant to staunch uproar over the transfer of two islands to Saudi Arabia, but his reprimand to an audience member ignited a furor over free speech. Parliamentarians, ministers and senior editors were invited to the...

Jordanian police shut the main office of the country's Muslim Brotherhood, its biggest opposition party, a senior leader in the movement said on Wednesday. Police acting on orders of the Amman governor evacuated staff and sealed the building, giving no reason for their actions,...

Fathi Zeidan, a leading member of the Palestinian Fatah movement, was killed by a car bomb in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, according to a Lebanese security source. The incident reportedly occurred outside the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon’s southern city of Sidon. The...

Five Turkish soldiers and 30 Kurdish militants have been killed in the past 24 hours in attacks and clashes across Turkey's turbulent southeast region, security sources and the army said Tuesday. An estimated 57 people, including eight civilians, were wounded in the attacks, they said....