An Egyptian court has convicted two police officers in absentia over torturing a detainee to death and critically injuring another as part of a government crackdown on police abuses. Judge Saeed Sabry on Saturday sentenced the officers to life in prison after the prosecution presented forensic...

A Kurdish militant group once linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has claimed responsibility for an attack at Istanbul's second airport this week that left an aircraft cleaner dead and injured another. In a statement, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) said they...

The Palestinian interior ministry in Gaza accused Egyptian forces on Saturday of killing a mentally-ill Palestinian who had waded through the sea into Egypt's territory. The incident happened on Friday, Gaza's interior ministry said. Video broadcast by Al-Jazeera network showed the man walking...

Turkey's prime minister Saturday cancelled a planned meeting with the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, saying its politics was rooted in violence, as government forces pursued a major security operation in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was due to...