The United States said on Friday it would work with other nations to resolve Egypt's crisis peacefully, injecting new energy into a push to end a bloody standoff since the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. A day after saying the army had restored democracy by removing Mursi,...

The head of Syria’s opposition told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday the country’s situation was “desperate” and called for the United States to arm the rebels quickly and to push harder for a political settlement. The United Nations says more than 100,000 people have...

Arab Islamists and Kurdish militants, two of the most controversial armed groups in Syria’s civil war, for the past week have been battling each other for control of key towns close to the Turkish border after the Kurds announced a plan to declare local autonomy. The United States views...

The U.S. and European Union are seeing an increasing number of radicalized young Muslims going to  Syria  to fight, a development that raises the danger that they will return to conduct terrorist attacks at home. The war is providing both a rallying point and a training ground for...