Two Palestinians stabbed an Israeli Thursday and were then shot by police, as diplomatic efforts continued to try to bring an end to a month-long spate of violence. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the attackers, whose identities were not immediately known, were seriously wounded....

Partly burned and still abandoned, the high-walled villas that once housed the U.S. consulate compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi now sit on a frontline of a nation at war with itself. Three years after militants killed U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other...

President Tayyip Erdogan's tactics for Turkey's second general election in five months might have changed, but the outcome looks likely to be the same: for the first time in its history, his ruling AK Party may have to share power. Opinion polls suggest the Islamist-rooted AKP,...

Turnout was so low in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections, that satirist Bassem Youssef derided it as an ingenious strategy to show the world Egypt had rid itself of its notorious overcrowding. Empty polling stations highlight disillusionment with Egypt's chaotic...