Israeli troops killed at least 18 Palestinians along the Gaza border Monday, health officials said, as demonstrators streamed to the frontier on the day the United States prepared to open its embassy in Jerusalem. Protests intensified on the 70th anniversary of Israel's founding, with...

Egypt is holding political prisoners in "prolonged and indefinite solitary confinement" that amounts to "torture," an international rights group said Monday. In a new report, Amnesty International said dozens of detained human rights activists, journalists and members of the opposition...

German authorities say they have arrested a 25-year-old Syrian man on suspicion of being a member of Daesh (ISIS). Federal prosecutors say Faisal A.H., whose full name was withheld on privacy grounds, was detained Wednesday in the southwestern city of Tuebingen. Prosecutors said...