Yemen's state news agency says Interior Minister Ahmed al-Maysari demanded the closure of informal prisons in a meeting with an Emirati official, despite denials by the United Arab Emirates that it controls detention facilities in the country. The SABA news agency said he made the...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on a surprise visit to Afghanistan Monday, promised support for President Ashraf Ghani's bid to start peace talks with the Taliban and repeated the United States itself would be willing to join the talks. The visit, coming at the end of a tour of...

The remains of 35 Srebrenica genocide victims were placed on a truck laden with flowers in the Bosnian city of Visoko on Monday morning for their final journey to a cemetery. The victims will be buried in the village of Potocari, northwest of the city of Srebrenica, on Wednesday to mark...

An Iraqi military spokesman says an airstrike has killed 20 Daesh (ISIS) militants outside the northern city of Mosul. In a statement issued on Monday, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool says the slain militants were hiding inside a tunnel in Badoush area northwest of Mosul. Rasool says...