(Al Arabiya)- Cairo’s prosecutor general said in a statement on Sunday that the country’s President Abdulfatah al-Sisi had faced two previous assassination attempts: one in Saudi Arabia and the second in Egypt. The prosecutor said two cells, one based in Saudi Arabia, were coordinating...

The United Nations warned Sunday that time was "running out" for efforts to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in Syria's war-battered Aleppo, as fresh fighting there killed at least eight schoolchildren. US President Barack Obama urged greater efforts to end the violence when he met Russian...

 Fresh fighting shook Syria's Aleppo on Sunday with a rebel attack killing at least eight children at a school, as the UN's envoy struggled to push peace efforts in Damascus. The envoy, Staffan de Mistura, met with Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem in Damascus for talks on the...

A barrel bomb killed a family of six in rebel-held eastern Aleppo early on Sunday, a war monitor, a rebel and two medics said, while rebel shelling killed seven children at a school in the government-held sector, state television reported. The medics said the al-Baytounji family had...