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The court also sentenced U.S-Egyptian citizen Mohamed Soltan to life in jail for supporting the group and transmitting false news.

The fighter-bomber will give India a warplane more advanced than anything its rival Pakistan can field today.

The Eastern Orthodox celebration shares fundamental similarities with the Western equivalent but with a few notable differences.

The U.S. said it was considering a $57 million sale of air-to-surface missiles to Egypt, the second big arms deal this week after Congress was notified of a potential $1 billion sale of helicopters and missiles to Pakistan.

Posters showing Adolf Hitler meeting with a Muslim leader are called racist by a prominent Egyptian religious organization.

Palestinians living in Syria had only one real option for escaping ISIS. Now, that option is gone.

Bomb experts have cordoned off the area and are searching for other possible devices, Egyptian state media reported.

The Roman Catholic Pope Francis made the remarks while presiding over the Via Crucis procession on Good Friday in Rome.

The rebel group that is consolidating its hold over key cities in Yemen is fiercely anti-Jewish.

The Jewish holiday gets its name from the 10 plagues God unleashed against the Pharaoh.

The word Passover comes from when God “passed over” Israelites’ homes during the tenth plague and spared their firstborn sons from being killed.

The rare convergence of the observances is a reminder of the links between the two religious holidays.

The seder is a ritual feast celebrating the Jewish holiday of Passover.

The artifacts were discovered in an underground cave near Kibbutz Lahav in the Tel Halif region in southern Israel.

Militant attacks in the region have increased in frequency since the ouster of Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.

Burkina Faso’s government confirmed on Wednesday that an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu was responsible for the deaths of large numbers of chickens in two regions of the country in recent weeks.

Three-quarters of the world's executions happen in just three Mideast countries, according to Amnesty International.

The ban was imposed in 2013 after the Egyptian army overthrew the government.

The military force is expected to consist of up to 40,000 highly trained troops to counter security threats in the Middle East.

Families across the globe will gather Friday to hold the traditional seder meal symbolizing new beginnings and the bitterness of slavery to mark the Jewish holiday of Passover.

Plans to build a church commemorating the Coptic victims of the Islamic State group are sparking sectarian tensions.