French president Francois Hollande told key Syrian opposition “not to go to Geneva if there is no ending for Bashar al-Assad’s rule,” Syrian Deputy Chairman of the National Coalition said in a report was sent to some opposition figures and obtained by Zaman Alwasl....

After crushing the Muslim Brotherhood at home, Egypt's military rulers plan to undermine the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which runs the neighboring Gaza Strip, senior Egyptian security officials told Reuters. The aim, which the officials say could take years to pull off,...

Egypt's army chief has indicated that he may run for president in elections slated for later this year, according to state media. General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who led a military coup last July to depose the country's first democratically-elected leader, Mohamed Morsi, said on Saturday...

Several factions of the Syrian opposition, meeting together for the first time, called on Friday for a new coalition but did not reach agreement on who should attend peace talks later this month, or whether they would attend at all. With less than a fortnight to go until the first...