An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced two men to death and eight others to between three years and life in prison over an attack on a church and Christian-owned shop in Cairo that killed 10 people. A gunman opened fire in December 2017 on Christians in a shop in the southern Cairo suburb of...

More than a year after the Islamic State group fled, Syrian boys and girls are finally back on stage -- bobbing to the rhythm of drums in the northern city of Raqa. At the first cultural centre to open since the jihadists' draconian rule ended, sunlight floods into the brand new library,...

Libya's coast guard said Sunday it had rescued nearly 150 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, off the country's Mediterranean coast. Spokesman Ayoub Gassim said that a rubber boat carrying 96 migrants, including 16 women and four children, was intercepted a day earlier off...

Syrian security officers hung Muhannad Ghabbash from his wrists for hours, beat him bloody, shocked him with electricity and stuck a gun in his mouth. Mr. Ghabbash, a law student from Aleppo, repeatedly confessed his actual offense: organizing peaceful antigovernment protests. But the...