Close to 2.5 million pilgrims took part in a symbolic stoning of the devil in the final days of the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, as Muslims around the world marked the start of the Eid al-Adha celebrations. In Mina, pilgrims spend the final days of hajj throwing pebbles at a pillar...

A Palestinian who shot at Israeli soldiers along the Gaza border Sunday was killed when troops returned fire, the army and Hamas' Health Ministry said, in the third such incident in recent days. Israel's army said in a statement that the Palestinian shot toward troops, who returned...

A coalition said Sunday that it had launched a strike apparently against southern separatists in Yemen after they seized the presidential palace in the second city of Aden. The seizure, decried by the Riyadh-backed Yemeni government as a coup supported by the United Arab Emirates,...

 Israeli police and Palestinian worshippers clashed at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site Sunday as overlapping Jewish and Muslim holidays led to tensions there. Police fired sound grenades as Palestinian protests intensified at the highly sensitive Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to...