Middle East
Egypt to hold presidential election March 26-28
Egypt will hold a presidential election on March 26-28, with the incumbent Abdel Fattah al-Sisi widely expected to seek a second term ...Iran president goes all-in on reform push after unrest
President Hassan Rouhani went all-in on Monday with a push for greater civil liberties in the wake of the deadly unrest that ...Bahrain urges citizens against travel to Iran
The Gulf state of Bahrain on Monday called on its citizens not to travel to Iran "under any circumstances" because of street ...Nigeria troops arrest 400-plus Boko Haram fighters, families
Military authorities say Nigerian soldiers have arrested more than 400 people associated with the Boko Haram extremist group hiding on the islands ...Israeli troops kill four Palestinians, wound 160 in protests over Jerusalem
Israeli troops shot dead four Palestinians and wounded 150 others with live fire on Friday, medical officials said, as protests over U.S. ...Coalition says fewer than 3,000 IS fighters remain in Iraq and Syria
The United States-led international coalition fighting Islamic State estimates that fewer than 3,000 fighters belonging to the hardline Sunni militant group remain ...Yemen Huthis rally after killing strongman
Thousands of Huthi supporters rallied in Sanaa on Tuesday as the rebels cemented their grip on the Yemeni capital after killing their ...Rebel area near Damascus hit by heavy shelling despite two-day truce
Dozens of mortar bombs landed on the last major rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, a war monitor and ...Hariri returns to Lebanon for first time since resigning as PM
Saad al-Hariri landed in Beirut on Tuesday, his media office said, returning home for the first time since he resigned as Lebanon\'s ...Iran, Russia, Turkey leaders to hold Syria summit next week
Russian President Vladimir Putin will next week host Turkish and Iranian counterparts Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hassan Rouhani for summit talks on ...




