A court sentenced 11 men to death on Tuesday for their part in Egypt's worst violence at a soccer stadium, in which more than 70 fans were killed in 2012. Many of the dead were crushed when panicked fans tried to escape from the Port Said stadium after a post-match pitch invasion...

Syrian air strikes on rebel-held Aleppo city killed at least 12 people on Tuesday, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. The fierce aerial campaign on the liberated neighborhoods of  the northern city killed 4 people in al-Shaaar neighborhood, 5 people, including a woman, in al-Ansari, and 3 others...

The U.N.'s nuclear agency is studying a request from Syria to help convert an atomic reactor near Damascus to use lower grade nuclear fuel which would be harder to use in bombs, its head said on Monday. The reactor is currently running on highly-enriched uranium (HEU) and Syria...

The second hearing in the trial of jailed Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian on espionage charges took place behind closed doors in Tehran on Monday, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. The first hearing of Iranian-U.S. citizen Rezaian also had been held behind closed...