Islamist militants disguised as security officials killed three Tunisian policemen and a civilian in an attack near the border with Algeria, the state news agency TAP said on Sunday. The agency did not name any group in the attack. Tunisia's security forces have been battling...

Deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi appeared in court on Sunday on charges of conspiring with foreign groups to commit terrorist acts in  Egypt , in a further escalation of the crackdown against his Muslim Brotherhood. Declaring it "the biggest case of conspiracy in the...

Syria's government and opposition still do not honor basic tenets of international humanitarian law despite the evacuation of besieged Syrians from the Old City of Homs, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Saturday. ICRC President Peter Maurer said the...

More than 140,000 people, over 7,000 of them children, have been killed in Syria's uprising-turned-civil war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. The pro-opposition Observatory said the period since the "Geneva 2" peace talks for  Syria  began last...