Five people were injured on Thursday when a bomb exploded near a bus in the Egyptian capital, two days after a blast at a police station in the Nile Delta city of  Mansoura  killed 14 people. The explosion happened in the Nasr City neighbourhood, in front of Al-Azhar...

Israel is working with allies abroad to track Westerners fighting in Syria, concerned that such militants could attack Israeli or Jewish targets once back home, a senior Israeli official said on Tuesday. Of an estimated 10,000 foreign combatants among rebels battling Syrian...

After fleeing a rebel assault on the historic Syrian town of Maalula, hundreds of Christian families sheltering in Damascus are preparing for a bleak Christmas away from home. The picturesque hamlet -- where residents still speak the ancient Aramaic of Jesus Christ -- was a symbol of...

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday invitations to the next round of Syria peace talks would be sent by the end of year as he launched a fresh appeal for Iran to participate. "The invitation list is near complete, I hope the question of Iran’s participation is resolved...