An Egyptian court on Sunday upheld the death penalty for 20 men charged with killing policemen in the violence that followed the military's ousting of former-President Mohammad Morsi in 2013, while changing the sentence for many others to hefty prison terms. The verdicts can again be...

A 1948 Palestinian former lawmaker entered prison with "pride" Sunday as he began a two-year sentence for smuggling cellphones to Palestinian prisoners. Basel Ghattas said he was entering prison with his "head held high" and with "support from my people." Read More: Triple blast...

President Bashar al-Assad has appeared on the Syrian currency for the first time, his portrait printed on a new 2,000-pound banknote that went into circulation on Sunday. Central bank governor Duraid Durgham said the 2,000-pound note was one of several new notes printed years ago but the...

A drone strike likely to have been carried out by the United States killed two suspected Al-Qaeda members in southern Yemen, a security official said on Sunday. The attack took place on Saturday night in Wadhie, a region in the southern province of Abyan, the official said. One of the...