Egypt's interim government has pledged "decisive" action and ordered heightened security after armed men killed six soldiers at a Cairo checkpoint. The shooting on Saturday morning came two days after armed men killed a soldier in Cairo, as fighters once based in the Sinai Peninsula...

After discovering China-made components in the F-35 fighter jet, a Pentagon investigation has uncovered Chinese materials in other major U.S. weaponry, including Boeing Co's B-1B bomber and certain Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 fighters, the U.S. Defense Department said. Titanium mined...

Dozens of Assad's forces and militias loyal to it were killed on Saturday in a successful operation conducted by Deir al-Zor rebels, activist reported. The rebels blew up fuel tanks and ammunition stores in the regime’s security square near the military hospital in "Ghazi...

Officials investigating the disappearance of a Malaysia  Airlines  jetliner with 239 people on board suspect it may have disintegrated in mid-flight, a senior source said on Sunday, as Vietnam reported a possible sighting of wreckage from the plane. International police...