Egypt  executed an Islamist on Saturday for a murder committed during riots in mid-2013, the first death sentence carried out against a supporter of the banned Muslim Brotherhood under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The interior ministry said in a statement on...

(Reuters) - When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the United States this week to take a tough line against Iran , he argued that world powers could always push for a better nuclear deal because the Islamic Republic was vulnerable to low oil prices. But the claim...

Several Israelis were injured on Friday after a Palestinian man drove a vehicle into a crowd of Israelis in East Jerusalem, Israeli authorities have said. Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said that the vehicular attack took place near an Israeli police headquarters located on...

(Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have looted and bulldozed the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, the Iraqi government said, in their latest assault on some of the world's greatest archaeological and cultural treasures. A tribal source from the nearby city of Mosul told Reuters...