The Israeli military’s spokesperson for Arabic media late on Tuesday ordered residents in Gaza’s southern Rafah area to leave their homes and move north.

The White House denies that classified information was shared when The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a group ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed mediation efforts to restore regional calm ...

Many lawmakers want to see the commandments displayed in public schools. Are they also interested in the Hebrew Bible’s ...

Two music lovers bring a contemporary spin—and sound—to the Haggadah, the handbook that guides a Passover Seder, with The Rock ‘n’ Roll Haggadah (Simon Element, out now).

Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...

Hamas has agreed to a new Egyptian proposal to release 5 hostages, including the American-Israeli Edan Alexander, in exchange for a renewed ceasefire, a Hamas source tells CNN. The proposal is similar ...

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they stop being used?

As we prepare to welcome spring (March 20) and Passover (April 12) and Easter (April 20). I offer up a prayer for remembering how our spring holidays divide us and unite us and how springtime makes ...

Passover is an eight-day Jewish holiday representing rebirth and new beginnings. Here's how to explain the holiday and ...

Six people were killed Thursday when a tourist submarine sank off Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, according to the ...