A Palestinian driver rammed his vehicle into a group of Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and was shot dead by the troops, the Israeli military said. There was no immediate comment from Palestinian officials. Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance service said two of the...

Hossein Fereydoun, the brother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, has been released on bail following his arrest on charges of financial crime, media reported. "The court has accepted the bail" and Fereydoun, who acts as a key adviser to Rouhani, was freed on Monday night, the ISNA news...

One person was killed and 50 people were injured in clashes on Sunday as security forces tried to evict squatters from a Nile island, the government and witnesses said. The incident on Warraq island in Cairo came amid a government campaign to remove encroachments from state property and...

Syrian state media say shells have hit the Russian embassy in Damascus causing material damage. State news agency SANA said two shells were fired at the Russian embassy Sunday, one hitting the compound while the other fell nearby. Syrian rebels in the suburbs of the capital have...