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Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Wednesday he had quit the military to run for president and vowed to rid the country of “terrorism” almost nine months after he toppled its elected leader. Sisi, who was also defense minister, faces no serious competition in the election — likely before ...

A Bahraini court on Wednesday jailed 29 people, including an award winning photographer, for up to 10 years for an alleged attack on a police center in April 2012. A judicial source and activists said the verdicts were based on defendants’ confessions that were extracted under torture. Twenty-six of those ...

A British man fighting with an extremist group in Syria has released a call to arms to “brothers and sisters” back home to join the country’s foreign-hatch conflict. Speaking with a London accent, the man, a member of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), says the ...

Baghdad — A presidential guard shot dead a senior Iraqi journalist during an argument in Baghdad Saturday and then fled, briefly sparking a standoff in which Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki demanded he be handed over. It was not immediately clear what sparked the altercation outside a heavily guarded presidential complex ...

Israeli soldiers opened fire on a house in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank early Saturday, killing at least three Palestinians including a 17-year-old, officials said. A large contingent of occupation forces surrounded the northern West Bank home in attempt to abduct Hamza Abu al-Heja, a 22-year-old member ...

Twelve people were killed Saturday in clashes between Yemeni forces and rebel Houthis on the outskirts of the northern city of Amran, a local official and tribal sources said. The rebels, known as Houthis or Ansarullah, had traveled to Amran to take part in a demonstration, but shooting erupted when ...

A court in Egypt adjourned the mass trial of more than 1,200 supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohammed Mursi after a brief hearing on Saturday, state media reported. The country’s biggest trial since the army removed Mursi last July after a turbulent single year in office was adjourned until Monday. ...

Several ancient archeological sites were “destroyed” after the Israeli Antiquities Authority conducted controversial digs in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian news agency reported Wednesday. The West Bank and East Jerusalem are part of the Palestinian territories, which have been internationally recognized since 1967. Maan News reported ...

An Egyptian court sentenced 26 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death on charges of forming a “terrorist cell” aimed at attacking the Suez Canal. The 26 defendants have been sentenced in absentia. Meanwhile, the Northern Cairo Criminal Court sentenced a 27th defendant to 15 years in prison. The accusations ...

The following is the full text of the message issued on March 20, 2014 by Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, on the occasion of Norouz. In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Conqueror of hearts and sight, Planner of night and day, Transformer of ...