Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday demanded a "total" ceasefire from Gaza's Hamas rulers in his first public comments on another deadly flare-up between the two sides. There have been efforts by U.N. officials and Egypt to secure a long-term truce between Israel and Hamas,...

Egyptian security forces have killed "terrorists" in a shootout in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, where Daesh (ISIS) is active, an interior ministry source said Sunday. The Egyptian army has since February been conducting a major operation focused on Sinai to wipe out jihadists from...

The United States urged Britain Sunday to ditch its support for a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and instead join forces with Washington to counter the global threat it says Tehran poses. Despite opposition from European allies, U.S. President Trump in May pulled the United States out of a...

 An explosion of suspected US-led airstrikes at a weapons depot in northern Idlib province killed at least 39 civilians, including 12 children, on Sunday, a war monitor and activists said. Sources told Zaman al-Wasl that the US strikes had targeted depot belongs to the former al-Qaeda...