EGYPT

Over 500 members of the Muslim Brotherhood group were sentenced to death for attacking a police station and killing 13 officers in August 2013.

Caught in a desperate situation, two Iraqi men turned to the Islamic State group for money and a sense of belonging, only to be imprisoned by Kurdish security forces.

Ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty by the two countries could pave the way for five more to follow, a senior U.N. official said.

The mechanic, whose cousin joined ISIS in Syria, is suspected of planting a bomb on the Metrojet flight that crashed in October, Reuters reported.

Russia had temporarily stopped all flights to Egypt after a Metrojet plane crashed in the Sinai Peninsula last October, killing all 224 people on board.

ISIS has targeted Russian tourists in the past and now the Russian tourism agency is warning its citizens in Turkey about new threats.

The event is being held to examine the rights of religious minorities in Muslim-majority communities, in theory and in practice.

A look back at the events that changed Egypt’s political landscape since the uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

A United Nations report had previously warned that climate change could trigger locust plagues.

Out of the 104 parliament members attending the session, 89 voted against the proposed unity government on Monday.

Kurdistan, a semiautonomous region in northern Iraq, is rich in oil, but the money rarely makes it to the people.

The current government has brought life back to normal for a lot of people since the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, but many question its autocratic policies.

The Chinese president was the first international leader to visit Tehran after Western sanctions on Iran were lifted Jan. 16.

The Chinese president was scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran.

A United Nations panel said the level of global humanitarian aid is "insufficient" as conflicts and disasters grow.

On Saudi Arabia's headline index, 167 stocks fell as investors feared the easing of Iranian sanctions raised the prospect of a surge in oil supplies.

The measures expected to be announced Thursday are part of a plan to revive the North African nation’s waning tourism industry.

Concerns are mounting about whether the country's Muslim separatist groups are setting up a wilayat, or ISIS satellite.

Egypt’s housing ministry agreed Monday with one of China’s largest construction companies to build sanitation networks for 260 villages.

The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday that Russian airstrike hit a school in the town of Anjara in Aleppo province.

Russian and Western governments have maintained that Metrojet flight 9268 was brought down by a bomb.