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Pope Francis will visit Cairo on April 28-29 at the invitation of the Egyptian president and the grand imam of the capital’s famed Al-Azhar mosque, the Vatican said Saturday. The pontiff had hosted the grand imam, Ahmed al-Tayeb, at the Vatican last May, in a […]

FILE – Turkey’s Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, center, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, left, and Russia’s Chief of Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov attend a meeting in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, Turkey, March 7, 2017. An […]

Protestors began gathering on Sunday morning in Riyad Solh Square for a rally against the unfair increase in taxes and in support of decreeing the wage scale.

WASHINGTON —  The Egyptian government is struggling to counter an increasingly violent insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula targeting Egyptian police, security forces and Christians. Several militant groups, including Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, are controlling large swaths of […]

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday threatened to destroy Syrian air defense systems after they fired ground-to-air missiles at Israeli warplanes carrying out strikes. “The next time the Syrians use their air defense systems against our planes we will destroy them without the slightest hesitation,” […]

Heavy clashes rocked eastern districts of the Syrian capital on Sunday as rebels and jihadists tried to fight their way into the city center in a surprise assault on government forces. The attack comes just days before a fresh round of U.N.-brokered peace talks in […]

MARA, Chad — From Yemen to Syria to here in Central Africa, the Trump administration is relying on Special Operations forces to intensify its promised fight against the Islamic State and other terrorist groups as senior officials embrace an Obama-era strategy to minimize the American […]

A group of young men blocked the road at the intersection of Saint Michael Church, in the Chiyah area with burning tires on Sunday night. They then escaped on their motorcycles, when a patrol of the Internal Security Forces arrived on the scene. An army […]

The Head of the Finance and Budget Committee, Deputy Ibrahim Kanaan is to be held a press conference on Monday afternoon, March 20, 2017, at the center of the congress and meetings of the “Free Patriotic Movement”, in the Tayyar Center, Sin el-fil, near the […]