Middle East

Air raids, naval shelling and ground fighting shook Yemen on Sunday in some of the most widespread combat since a…

Israel will take part as an observer in a major nuclear non-proliferation conference that opens at the United Nations on…

A strike by Libyan security guards over salary payments has forced the closure of the western El Feel oilfield, a…

At least five air strikes hit military sites and an area near the presidential palace compound in the Yemeni capital…

Syrian television said on Sunday that Islamist insurgents who seized a key northwestern town had since slaughtered civilians, but monitors…

The Tunisian man accused of piloting a migrant boat that sank off Libya, killing more than 700 people, is himself…

Three suicide car bombs exploded at a border crossing between Iraq and Jordan on Saturday, killing four soldiers, a witness…

The Islamic State in Syria is preventing football fans from wearing T-shirts bearing slogans for the world's most popular football…

Israeli police shot dead a knife-wielding Palestinian who attempted to stab colleagues at an east Jerusalem checkpoint, a spokeswoman said…

Islamist insurgents including Al-Qaeda's wing in Syria Nusra Front on Saturday captured large parts of the northwestern Syrian town of…