(Reuters) - Executed former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's Sunni tribal allies moved his body from a family plot eight months ago, fearful that Shi'ite militias would harm it, a tribal leader told Reuters on Wednesday. The caution paid off for Saddam's supporters and perhaps...

(Reuters) - An Egyptian court upheld death sentences on Wednesday against 12 Muslim Brotherhood supporters convicted of killing a police officer last year, judicial sources said. Judge Moataz Khafagy first passed the sentence against the men in June and referred the case to...

(Reuters) - A Gaza ceasefire was holding on Wednesday and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, echoing Israel's position, linked a lifting of blockades of the devastated enclave to Hamas giving up its rocket arsenal. Israel withdrew ground forces from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese state media say clashes have broken out in a border town held by Islamic extremists from neighboring Syria after a negotiated truce collapsed overnight. The cease-fire, mediated by Muslim clerics, was meant to help end four days of fighting in the town of...