Sri Lankan authorities have arrested a Saudi-educated scholar for what they claim are links with Zahran Hashim, the suspected ringleader of the Easter Sunday bombings, throwing a spotlight on the rising influence of Salafi-Wahhabi Islam on the island’s Muslims. Mohamed Aliyar, 60, is the...

The United States has started a psychological war in the region, the commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said in a parliament session Sunday, according to a parliamentary spokesman. The U.S. military has sent forces, including an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers, to the Middle...

Libya's coast guard said Sunday it had rescued nearly 150 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, off the country's Mediterranean coast. Spokesman Ayoub Gassim said that a rubber boat carrying 96 migrants, including 16 women and four children, was intercepted a day earlier off...

Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says eight alleged terrorists have been killed in a shootout with security forces in the predominantly Shiite eastern region of Qatif. The ministry says security forces launched a raid Saturday on the island of Tarot off the coast of the kingdom's oil-rich...