Dozens of fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Syrian government forces have been killed in ongoing battles in Hasakah province, a monitoring group and activists said. The fighting has displaced more than 100,000 people, the UN said. At least nine ISIL...

Egypt's top public prosecutor died on Monday of wounds sustained in a car bomb attack on his convoy as it was leaving his Cairo home on Monday in a marked escalation of Islamist militant attacks on the judiciary. Judges and other state officials have increasingly been targeted by radical...

Israeli naval forces boarded and took over an activist vessel seeking to break the Gaza blockade, and were escorting it to an Israeli port early Monday, the military said, saying that the navy did not use force. "In accordance with international law, the Israeli Navy advised the vessel...

Mohammad Nasif Khayrbik, a senior Syrian government security official close to President Bashar al-Assad, died Sunday morning after a long illness, state media said. Khayrbik was a key confidante of the Assad family and the target of EU and U.S. sanctions for his alleged role in putting down...