A major fire broke out in a residential tower at Ajman in the United Arab Emirates late on Monday, the latest in a series of blazes in the country's high-rise buildings. Residents of the tower were evacuated and firefighters were trying to extinguish the blaze, local newspaper...

Drone attacks killed eight men suspected of belonging to al Qaeda in southern Yemen on Saturday night, local residents said, as a U.S. campaign against the militant group goes on amid a wider civil war in the country. Two missiles hit the fighters who had gathered in courtyards in...

Thousands of Yemenis rallied in the rebel-held capital Saturday to denounce the Saudi-led coalition that launched a military campaign against the country's insurgents a year ago, an AFP photographer said. The intervention in support of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi that began on March 26...

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for three suicide bombings Friday that targeted Yemeni checkpoints in Aden and what it said was an attack on a nearby base of the pro-government Arab coalition. The IS-affiliated Amaq news agency said in an online report that "IS fighters have...