U.S.-led coalition jets struck Islamic State positions in northeast  Syria  for the second day in a row, in an area where the militants are battling Kurdish forces, a Kurdish official and a group monitoring the war said on Saturday. The Kurdish YPG militia, which has...

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday defended his country's recent airstrikes against the targets of a militant group in neighboring Libya and lauded financial support from oil-rich Gulf countries. "Our army does not commit aggressions against anybody," al-Sisi said...

At least 47 people were killed – including three Egyptians – in three suicide bombings that rocked Libya's eastern city of Al-Qubbah on Friday, a Libyan military spokesman has said. "The death toll has risen to 47, including three Egyptians and two Sudanese nationals,"...

(Reuters) - A senior Egyptian diplomat on Thursday accused Qatar of supporting terrorism after Qatar recalled its ambassador from Cairo in a dispute over Egyptian air strikes on Islamic State targets in Libya . Egyptian jets bombed sites in Libya on Monday hours in response to...