The legacy of Islamic Cairo's most famous son Naguib Mahfouz lives on in its winding lanes 21 years after he became the only Arab to win the Nobel Literature Prize. A mosaic of the bespectacled author overlooks a market teeming with children on bikes, waiters balancing trays of hot drinks...

Turkey is refusing to back a NATO defense plan for the Baltics and Poland until the alliance offers Ankara more political support for its fight against Kurdish YPG militia in northern Syria, four senior alliance sources said. Ankara has told its NATO envoy not to sign off on the plan and is...

Afghanistan's powerful intelligence agency Tuesday denied reports of a massive pedophile ring operating in the country's schools, accusing the activists who broke the story of threatening public order. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said both Musa Mahmudi and Ehsanullah Hamidi...

At least six people have died after the most powerful earthquake to hit Albania in decades rocked the capital of Tirana and surrounding region early on Tuesday, causing several buildings to collapse and burying residents in the rubble. The 6.4 magnitude quake struck shortly before 4 a.m....