Saudi-backed Yemeni forces landed by sea at the Red Sea port of Maydee near the border with Saudi Arabia late on Wednesday, residents said, opening up a new front in a nine-month-old civil war. Northern Yemen is a stronghold of the Iranian-allied Houthi group, which has seized...

Saudi-led air strikes targeting Iranian-allied Houthi forces intensified in Yemen on Tuesday, residents said, an escalation of a nine-month-old war that follows a rise in tensions between the kingdom and arch foe Tehran. After weeks of a relative lull, large air strikes targeted...

(Reuters)- Bahraini police Monday fired tear gas and birdshot at protesters demonstrating against the execution of a top Shiite cleric in neighboring Saudi Arabia, witnesses said. The standoff in the village of al-Daih, west of the capital Manama, was the latest of several protests...

A German foreign ministry official expressed concern on Saturday about the execution in Saudi Arabia of prominent Shiite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr and reaffirmed the country's view that the death penalty is an inhumane form of punishment. "The execution of Nimr al-Nimr strengthens our...