The young man scratched his beard and shrugged, dismissing President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's call to vote in parliamentary elections on Sunday: "I'm boycotting. They didn't respect my choice the first time so what's the point?" Egypt has had no parliament since June 2012, when a...

A Palestinian gunman went on a shooting rampage at the central bus station in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Sunday, killing a soldier and wounding 11 other people, police said. In one of the most serious Palestinian attacks against Israelis during this month's...

 Iran Sunday notified the International Atomic Energy Agency that it would apply a protocol granting inspectors greater access to its nuclear sites, a further step in the implementation of a historic deal struck with world powers, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said. The announcement came as...

Israel Sunday rejected a proposal to send international observers to a flash-point holy site in a bid to calm unrest after five more stabbing incidents defied a security crackdown. Diplomatic moves to halt the more than two weeks of unrelenting violence gained steam meanwhile, with U.S....