KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Sunday urged Israel to end a three year-long blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and called on Palestinians to heal their political rifts. Ban's visit to the blockaded territory follows a trip made by the European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, who entered the coastal enclave last ...

Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a senior official of the Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab group in the southern Somali port town of Kismayo that it controls, officials said Saturday. Sheik Daud Ali Hasan, who was in charge of the Shebab's military operations in the town of Dhobley on the Kenyan border, was killed by men armed with handguns as he ...

Egypt's president named a moderate, Western-educated Islamic scholar the country's new top cleric on Friday, the state news agency reported. The appointment makes Ahmed el-Tayeb the new grand sheik of Cairo's Al-Azhar, the pre-eminent theological institute of Sunni Islam, the faith's majority sect. He takes over ...

The growing front in the war on terrorism may be no farther than Main Street. The terror cases that have emerged in the past week have one common characteristic: The suspects are all Americans. One is a woman who looked after the elderly in suburban Pennsylvania. Another ...