Egyptian police have killed 17 militants in a shootout in the restive northern Sinai, the interior ministry said Tuesday. Security forces are battling a long-running insurgency in the peninsula, spearheaded by Daesh. The shootout flared as police, acting on intelligence, raided a...

Shortly after Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq, the Tehran-backed Lebanese organization Hezbollah urgently met with Iraqi militia leaders, seeking to unite them in the face of a huge void left by their powerful mentor’s death, two sources with...

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China’s prevention and control work on the new coronavirus was having positive results and the country would win the battle against the virus, state media reported. Speaking to Qatar’s ruler, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Xi said...

Sudan’s government and rebel groups in Darfur agreed on Tuesday that all those wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) should appear before the tribunal, but a lawyer for ousted president Omar al-Bashir rejected the plan. Bashir, who was toppled after mass protests last year, is...