Middle East
Egypt sentences ousted President Mohammed Mursi to 20 years in prison
Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Mursi was sentenced to 20 years in prison without parole on Tuesday, nearly three years after he was ...Lebanon receives French arms for anti-jihadist fight
The first shipment of French weapons and military equipment arrived in Lebanon on Monday under a Saudi-funded deal worth $3 billion to ...Egypt sentences 22 to death for attack on police
An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced 22 people to death after convicting them of storming a police station outside Cairo and killing ...Air strike on missile base in Yemen capital kills at least seven
An air strike on a Scud missile base in the Yemeni capital Sanaa caused a big explosion that blew out windows in ...Clashes between Yemen rebels, president allies kill 21
Clashes between Shiite rebels and pro-president forces in southern Yemen overnight left 21 dead, on the fourth week of a Saudi-led air ...Egypt court sentences 11 to death over 2012 football riot
An Egyptian court Sunday sentenced 11 football fans to death after a retrial over a 2012 stadium riot in the canal city ...Saddam Hussein aide Ezzat al-Douri killed in Iraq
Ezzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a former aide to late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and a leader of Iraq\'s Sunni insurgency, may have been ...Former president defiant as humanitarian toll mounts in Yemen war
Yemen\'s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Friday he would not leave the country, dismissing reports in the Gulf Arab media ...UN chief calls for immediate ceasefire in Yemen
Intense bombing by a Saudi-led coalition hit Yemen Friday, three weeks into an air war against Iran-backed rebels as Al-Qaeda seized more ...Car bomb explodes outside US Consulate in Iraq
A car bombing at the entrance to the U.S. consulate in the capital of Iraq\'s Kurdistan region killed at least one person ...