Egypt is on the "right path", foreign minister Nabil Fahmy said Monday in Sudan on his first trip abroad, after hundreds died in clashes between Egyptian Islamists and security forces.
"Yes there is a crisis but we are on the right path and I believe in the future," he said after talks with his Sudanese counterpart Ali Karti.

Kuwait is to deport nine Egyptian Islamists for participating in protests outside their embassy in the Gulf emirate which bans foreigners from demonstrating, a newspaper said on Monday.
The men were among a group of some 70 protesters who staged two demonstrations outside the Egyptian embassy and consulate last week, to protest a deadly crackdown in Cairo of supporters of Egypt's deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, al-Rai newspaper reported.

Attacks on Monday killed six people in Iraq, as gunmen defied massive government operations to stem some of the worst violence to have hit the country in five years.
Security forces have mounted some of the biggest operations targeting militants since the 2011 withdrawal of American troops, but analysts and diplomats say Iraq is not tackling the root causes of the unrest.

The European Union held a first round of emergency talks Monday on the spiraling bloodshed in Egypt amid warnings the bloc was ready to "urgently review" ties with the country.
Ambassadors on the bloc's Political and Security Committee were called away from their summer break for talks in Brussels that kicked off Monday morning after the death toll from five days of violence in Egypt climbed to almost 800.

The Syrian army has recaptured all rebel-held positions in Latakia, President Bashar Assad's home province, state-run SANA news agency reported Monday quoting a military source.
"The army retook control of the Nabi Ashia mountain range and adjoining areas in the north of Latakia province," the source said, of villages seized in early August by rebels trying to topple Assad.

Militants killed 25 Egypt police Monday in the deadliest attack of its kind in years, as the country struggles to deal with a crisis sparked by the ouster of president Mohammed Morsi.
Sources said militants fire rocket-propelled grenades at two buses carrying police in the Sinai Peninsula, just hours after Egypt's military chief vowed a "forceful" response to violence roiling the Arab world's most populous nation.

Iraq's premier backed the Egyptian military crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi in a statement Sunday, the latest Arab leader to back the operation.
Nouri al-Maliki appealed for "self-restraint" but said Baghdad stood with the Egyptian government, describing its moves against the Muslim Brotherhood as efforts to impose law and order.

France on Sunday called on Saudi Arabia and Qatar to help find a solution to the crisis in Egypt as it received senior diplomats from the two rival regional powers.
Qatar, considered an ally of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, has strongly condemned the intervention by the authorities against the Islamist leader's supporters.

Thirty-six Islamist prisoners were killed in Egypt on Sunday during an attempted prison break, the official MENA news agency reported.
"A security official has confirmed that 36 Muslim Brotherhood elements were killed during an attempt to escape," the agency reported.

Libyan Interior Minister Mohamed Khalifa al-Sheikh tendered his resignation on Sunday, just three months into the job, his spokesman said, as unrest escalates in the North African country.
Sheikh became the second cabinet minister to quit since August 4 when deputy prime minister Awadh al-Barassi stepped down citing the government's inability to contain unrest.
