(Reuters) - Iran must commit to a verifiable freeze of at least 10 years on sensitive nuclear activity for a landmark atomic deal to be reached, but the odds are still against sealing a final agreement, U.S. President Barack Obama told Reuters on Monday. Interviewed at the...

At least seven people were killed and 33 others were wounded Monday in several bomb attacks across Baghdad, security sources said. Officials said two people were killed and six others were injured after an explosion near a football field in al-Husayniyah...

(Reuters) - Iran monitored 8 million Facebook accounts with new software and will watch other social media sites for content that contravenes the Islamic Republic's moral codes, state television reported on Monday. The Center...

(Reuters) - High-level discussions are under way to more closely involve Arab states in the work of the Middle East Quartet and reinvigorate the four-member group that has been seeking to mediate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 2002. Rather than formally expanding the...

An explosive charge went off on Monday outside a court complex in downtown  Cairo  – for which a shadowy group has claimed responsibility – amid conflicting reports of casualties. A group calling itself "The Revolutionary Punishment" said on Twitter that its members had planted an...

The United States and  Israel  showed signs of seeking to defuse tensions on Sunday ahead of a speech in Washington by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he will warn against a possible nuclear deal with Iran. Policy differences over the negotiations...

(Reuters) - A drone attack killed two suspected al Qaeda militants in the southern Yemeni province of Shabwa on Monday, local residents told Reuters, the latest in a series of strikes in the country gripped by political turmoil. The attack targeted militants traveling in a vehicle in...

(Reuters) - Islamist militant Mohammed Emwazi, identified as 'Jihadi John,' was a member of a network in contact with one of the men convicted of trying to bomb the British capital's underground railway in 2005, according to the government. The man dubbed by British media "Jihadi John"...

  Iraq's army and Shi'ite militia have launched a long-awaited offensive against Islamic State in Salahuddin province, a stronghold of the radical Islamist fighters north of Baghdad, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday. The ultra-radical fighters control several...

 The Israeli military said it had mobilized some 13,000 soldiers for an unannounced drill on Sunday in the occupied West Bank, in the first such exercise in three years. A terse statement said army chief Gadi Eisenkot had called a "surprise exercise in Central Command" -- the...

Palestinian movement  Hamas  on Sunday called on King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia to urge Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al  -Sisi  to halt what it described as "Egypt's hostile stances towards Hamas  and the Gaza Strip." "We urge King Salman of Saudi...

Hamas  on Sunday said that  Israel  will continue to be the "real enemy of the people in the region," in light of an Egyptian court labeling  Hamas  a "terrorist organization" a day earlier. "No matter how strong the alliance between  Israel  and the...

(Reuters) - Egypt's main election committee said on Sunday it was working on a new timetable for a long-awaited parliamentary poll after a court ruled that an article in a law defining voting districts was unconstitutional. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi directed his government to amend...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived Saturday night in Saudi Arabia, where he will visit holy Muslim cities and meet with Saudi King. Erdogan was welcomed in King Abdulaziz International airport in Jeddah city in the west by Governor Bin Macit and Turkish...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to begin a controversial visit to the U.S. on Sunday to express his rejection of a potential deal between world powers and Iran on the latter's nuclear program. Leaders of the centrist Zionist Union – a coalition of Israel's...

(Reuters) - Islamic State suicide bombers and fighters struck targets on Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, where security forces and their Shi'ite militia allies have been gathering for an offensive against the radical Sunni militants. Security sources and residents said...

(Reuters) - Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his followers to take a "historic" decision to lay down their arms, according to a statement on Saturday, a crucial step in Turkey's drive to end a 30-year insurgency by Kurdish rebels. Turkey's president, Tayyip...

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced four Muslim Brotherhood members to death – two in absentia – over charges of killing demonstrators outside the group's headquarters in 2013, a judicial source has said. The court also slapped 14 Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including...

  (Reuters) - An Egyptian court listed the Palestinian group Hamas as a terrorist organization, judicial sources said on Saturday, part of a sustained crackdown on Islamists in the most populous Arab state. In a separate case earlier in the day, a court sentenced the Egyptian Muslim...

Turkey's Constitutional Court has ordered the retrial of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party lawmaker, who was convicted of being a member of a terrorist organization in 2012. The court ruled that Sebahat Tuncel’s right to be tried fairly and in a reasonable time period was...