Two protesters died in Iraq on Tuesday as police fought running street battles with anti-government demonstrators, firing tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse stone-throwing youths demanding reform of what they see as a corrupt political system. A Reuters photographer saw one...

An Egyptian court has ordered the country's interior minister to reveal the whereabouts of a missing former parliamentarian believed to be in state custody, his wife told AFP Tuesday. Mostafa al-Naggar, a former opposition lawmaker and key figure in the 2011 revolution that toppled...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for an emergency meeting to be held on Wednesday on the outbreak of coronavirus in China.  The step comes after China reported one more death due to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that caused cases of pneumonia originating from Wuhan,...

Intelligence services have identified the new leader of the Daesh (ISIS) as Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi, British newspaper The Guardian reported Monday. The paper, citing officials from two unnamed spy services, described him as one of the terrorist group's founding members...