Islamic State militants launched a wide-scale coordinated assault on several military checkpoints in Egypt's North Sinai on Wednesday in which 50 people were killed, security sources said, the largest attack yet in the insurgency-hit province. Egyptian army F-16 jets and Apache helicopters...

At least 20 Egyptian security forces were killed when suspected militants attacked checkpoints in North Sinai on Wednesday, security sources said, in one of the biggest coordinated assaults in the province. Five checkpoints were attacked by about 70 militants, an army spokesman said, adding...

An Egyptian security official says a bomb blast near a police station killed three people, a day after the assassination of the country's prosecutor general. The blast took place Tuesday in the Six of October district. The official says it is not immediately clear whether the three killed were...

U.S. President Barack Obama warned Tuesday he will "walk away" from a bad nuclear deal with Iran, as Tehran and six world powers gave themselves until July 7 to reach an agreement. Insisting there must be a "strong, rigorous verification mechanism" for monitoring Iran's nuclear sites, Obama...