(Reuters) - A U.S. think tank analyst and former diplomat who has written articles critical of Egypt's government was blocked from entering the country to attend a conference on Saturday. Michele Dunne, a former diplomat once posted to Cairo and a senior associate at the...

(Reuters) - Islamic State fighters stormed a town in Iraq's western Anbar province on Saturday, killing at least 19 policemen and trapping others inside their headquarters, in the latest attack in the desert region where it controls large amounts of territory, officials said....

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday the United States was seeking to defuse tensions over proposed U.N. resolutions to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during talks in Europe next week. Kerry will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in...

The “solution process” to end Turkey's 40-year conflict with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is advancing positively and no one will be able to disturb this process, the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said. Addressing Turkish businessmen on...