Middle East

The hardline Ahrar al-Sham group in Syria and other insurgents seized a crossing in the southwest frontier area near Israel…

Israel's armed forces see a growing threat in instant messaging applications -- both to battlefield secrecy and to the privacy…

A Pakistani court jailed 10 men for 25 years each on Thursday for involvement in the 2012 shooting of teenage…

Iraq is poised to deploy Shia paramilitaries backed by Iran to Sunni tribal areas west of Baghdad, a move supporters…

Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Tallal, who is the nephew of Saudi King Salman bin Abdel Aziz, pledged allegiance to Crown…

Qatar has agreed to buy 24 Dassault Aviation-built Rafale fighter jets in a deal worth 6.3 billion euros (US$7.05 billion),…

The war in Yemen has given Omar Hassan al-Bashir, a skilled political operator who has ruled Sudan for a quarter-century,…

Israel has returned 15 fishing boats seized from Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, both sides said on Thursday, the latest…

A Bahraini man was sentenced to death on Wednesday for a bomb attack last year that killed a policemen, the…

Saudi King Salman appointed a new heir and made his young son second in line to rule on Wednesday, a…