Islamic State's Egypt affiliate said it was behind a car bombing that wounded 30 people, including 8 policemen, near a state security building and courthouse in a Cairo suburb on Thursday. A statement circulated on Twitter by supporters of the group, Sinai Province, said the bomb was a...

Four members of Hamas' armed wing were abducted in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday after the bus they were on was stopped by unidentified gunmen, sources close to the Palestinian group and Egyptian security officials said. Egypt accuses Hamas of supporting militant groups seeking to...

Typhoid has broken out among residents of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning of further disease outbreaks unless aid reached the camp because of the appalling conditions there. Eleven cases of typhoid were confirmed by the U.N....

Syrian regime aerial bombardment of rebel-held town of Harasta northeast of Damascus left at least 12 people dead, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Wednesday. The attacks on Harasta, in the Eastern Ghouta region, killed members of the town's council, civil defense, and police...