Bloomberg US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tore into a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, saying it only delayed the country’s ambition to gain weapons of mass destruction and didn’t take into account its role in sponsoring terrorism and destabilizing other countries. “This deal represents the same failed approach of the past,” Tillerson said at a hastily arranged press ...

  Bloomberg Egyptian aircraft struck IS hideouts in the Sinai peninsula, killing 19 militants, the military said, part of a stepped-up campaign against the group’s local affiliate since it bombed two Coptic churches on Palm Sunday. At least one senior member of the Ansar Beit al-Maqdis movement died in the strikes in north and central Sinai, according to a statement ...

  BEIRUT / AP Aid agencies have not been able to reach as many besieged Syrians this year as they did over the same period last year, the UN’s chief humanitarian adviser for Syria said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Jan Egeland said the front lines have shifted but civilian suffering has “remained the same” in 2017. Of ...