Two roadside bombs exploded near a patrol car in Cairo Friday, and police fired tear gas at supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in Alexandria, security officials in Egypt said. One policeman was slightly wounded when his patrol car was hit by two roadside bombs in a Cairo...

A senior al Qaeda operative based in Iran and known as Yasin al Suri (a.k.a. Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil) is "more active than ever" and facilitating al Qaeda's global operations,  Al Jazeera  reports . Al Suri's role as al Qaeda's point man inside Iran was first exposed by...

Syria's government may have madelegitimizing blunder by turning up at peace talks in Geneva since it had little to gain, little room for maneuver and may have started down a slippery slope by legitimizing its opponents, diplomats say according to Reuters. But its chief...

  A week of talks between the Syrian regime and the opposition national coalition in Geneva ended on Friday without and tangible results, Syrian Foreign Minister  said. “I regret to tell you that we have not reached tangible results during this week,” Walid...