Ten gunmen from Syria opened fire on troops patrolling an isolated border area in the north, the Associated Press reported a Jordanian army spokesman as saying. It is the first time that Jordan publicly reports an armed attack from Syria, although there have been several smuggling...

Lawyers for deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi withdrew in protest after he appeared in court on Sunday on charges of conspiring with foreign groups to commit terrorist acts in  Egypt . Mursi's legal team protested they could not hear their client speak from inside a...

Rebels detonated mines in tunnels under a hotel used by the army in northern Syria's Aleppo on Friday, killing at least five soldiers, a monitoring group said. "Islamist rebels dug several tunnels under and around the Carlton hotel in Aleppo's Old City, where government...

Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who led revolts against U.S. forces in  Iraq  before their pullout and became a major influence in the government, said he is leaving political life and has dissolved his movement. Sadr gave no reason for the retirement announced...