(Reuters) - Ultra-radical Islamist militants in northern  Iraq  have destroyed a priceless collection of statues and sculptures from the ancient Assyrian era, inflicting what an archaeologist described as incalculable damage to a piece of shared human history. A video...

(Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Amman has warned its citizens to avoid upscale shopping malls in the Jordanian capital, saying it had received what it called credible information that they could be targeted by militants. In a statement posted on its website late on Wednesday,...

 One person was killed and five others including policemen were wounded when five bombs exploded in Cairo on Thursday, security sources said. A bomb exploded outside a restaurant in the residential district of Imbaba, killing one and wounding two, the Interior Ministry...

(Reuters) - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards staged war games in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, including a gunboat attack on a model U.S. warship, in Tehran's latest display of military muscle in a Gulf shipping channel vital to world oil exports. The Shi'ite Muslim Islamic...