Middle East

Yemeni army forces backed by Arab coalition aircraft killed about 40 suspected al Qaeda fighters on Sunday as they fought…

Kurdish Peshmerga forces backed by US-led coalition airstrikes launched a fresh attack on Islamic State militants in northern Iraq in…

Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel, on Thursday lost a bid to overturn…

Rebel gains which have broken a Syrian government siege in the city of Aleppo will strengthen the opposition's hand should…

A Yemeni expatriate who killed a policeman in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday by running him over with his car and…

The leader of Islamic State's branch in Afghanistan and Pakistan was killed in a US drone strike on July 26,…

Iraq's offensive to dislodge Islamic State from its de facto capital Mosul is on track despite a spat between two…

The whitewashed dome of a Sufi shrine in the Yemeni city of Taiz gleamed for centuries until a band of…

Support for the U.N.-backed unity government in Libya is "crumbling" amid increased power outages and a weakening currency that is…

Russia said on Wednesday there would be daily three-hour ceasefires in Syria's Aleppo starting Thursday to allow humanitarian convoys to…