The Palestinian faction Hamas on Saturday downplayed a previous invitation by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for Palestinians to stay at Al-Aqsa Mosque to defend it against Israeli violations. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zurhi described the Palestinian Authority...

Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi on Saturday insisted that he was still his country's legitimate president as he stood trial on charges of breaking jail upon the uprising that toppled longstanding president Hosni Mubarak in 2011, a judicial source said. The source...

A group of Houthi militants late on Saturday stormed the administrative building of Sanaa province and besieged the home of Sanaa governor, Abdel-Ghani Hefzallah Jameel, eyewitnesses said. They said the Houthis had besieged the administrative building of the province for...

(CNN) - It is a question that the global community is seeking to understand as the crisis in Iraq and Syria deepens. How can such a numerically small force as ISIS, which calls itself the Islamic State, have taken control of vast swathes of Syria and Iraq, and how can it hold the...