Twelve people including two children were killed on Thursday when a gas tank exploded at a Turkish restaurant in the Qatari capital Doha, authorities in the Gulf Arab state reported. About 30 others were injured in the blast at the Istanbul Restaurant that one security source...

The U.N. Security Council is considering a draft resolution to impose travel bans and asset freezes on people in Yemen  who obstruct or undermine the country's political transition and those who commit human rights violations. Yemen , a U.S. ally, with a population of 25...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Tunisia on Tuesday to praise democratic progress in the country where the "Arab Spring" began and discuss the threat of Islamist militants there. After a crisis last year brought on by the killing of two opposition...

Lawyers for deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi withdrew in protest after he appeared in court on Sunday on charges of conspiring with foreign groups to commit terrorist acts in  Egypt . Mursi's legal team protested they could not hear their client speak from inside a...