Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a checkpoint in Egypt Sunday, killing two policemen and a bystander, security officials said on the eve of the anniversary of the 2011 uprising. Another two policemen were wounded in the attack near the town of Fakous in the Nile Delta province of Sharkiya...

A senior official in Syrian President Bashar Assad's ruling Baath party says the government will not make any new concessions in future peace talks. Hilal al-Hilal's comments come ahead of scheduled peace talks in Geneva in the coming days to work on ending Syria's nearly five-year conflict,...

Unidentified gunmen have killed a police officer and four others in Yemen's Aden in a wave of attacks targeting security forces in the violence-plagued port city. Assailants Sunday opened fire on a police vehicle carrying Colonel Taha al-Sobeihi in Aden's Mansura district, killing him along...

 Syrian pro-government forces recaptured the rebel-held town of Rabiya in the western coastal province of Latakia Sunday, Reuters said. The advance, with the backing of Russian airstrikes and directed partly by Russian officers, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It paved the...