Two French school students who ran away to fight in Syria were back home Tuesday with some explaining to do to their bewildered parents and teachers and the police. The two boys, aged 15 and 16, flew to Turkey on January 6 with the apparent intention of crossing the border into Syria...

 At least 29 people were killed in clashes in Egypt Saturday during rival rallies on the anniversary of the 2011 revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak, underscoring the country's violent polarisation.   Three years after Egyptians rose up to demand the overthrow of...

At least five people have been killed in three bombings in the Egyptian capital, the latest in a series of attacks that have rattled the public and undermined confidence in the interim government. The first and deadliest explosion tore through the security directorate in...

  Opposition militant group, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) broke in to the Anadolu Agency (AA) office in Syria's northern province of Aleppo on Tuesday, seizeing technical equipment. The AA team in Aleppo was unaffected by the incident. The group seized...