Middle East

Saudi Arabian authorities have released all remaining detainees from Riyadh’s opulent Ritz-Carlton Hotel, which had been used as an interrogation…

Huddled together on a dusty racetrack, Saudi judges scrutinise pouty lips and shapely humps in a high-stakes camel beauty pageant…

At least 36 people have been killed and 185 wounded in two days of heavy fighting between separatists and government…

Fresh fighting flared in Yemen’s southern city of Aden on Monday after separatist forces seized government buildings in what the…

The Trump administration is signaling US plans to keep troops in Syria for the foreseeable future for a mission that…

Shadia Bseiso certainly loves breaking norms. Not only is she a professional martial arts athlete who – literally – fought…

The Pentagon said Monday it was reviewing soldiers’ contributions to a “Global Heat Map” posted by Strava Labs, a San…

United Nations Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura will head a new constitutional commission that will be set up at a…

Militants attacked an Afghan army unit guarding a military academy in the capital of Kabul on Monday, killing at least…

Last October, after weeks of bitter combat, some 1,400 “Islamic State” (IS) fighters turned themselves in, expediting Hawija’s liberation. In a…