Bahrain has detained a former member of parliament on charges of financing militants, state news agency BNA said late on Sunday, the latest in a series of arrests of opposition figures. The agency did not name the man but quoted the director of criminal investigations as saying...

United Arab Emirates forces based in Yemen's port city of Aden have freed a British hostage who had been held by al Qaeda, state news agency WAM said on Sunday. The hostage, who went missing in Feb. 2014, was taken to Abu Dhabi on a military plane on Saturday night, the agency said....

A helicopter from the Saudi-led forces battling anti-government fighters in Yemen crashed along the Saudi border, killing the two pilots, the coalition said Saturday. "The two pilots fell as martyrs when their aircraft crashed while they were defending the borders of Saudi Arabia from these...

Dozens of people, many of them civilians, were killed in air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition on the southwestern Yemeni city of Taiz, an aid organization and Houthi media said on Friday. Houses were reduced to rubble and many victims were unable to reach hospitals, Medicins Sans...