An air strike near the Yemeni port of Hudaida Monday killed 16 people in a building where Houthi rebels were gathering, security sources told AFP. There were conflicting reports on the number of rebels versus civilians killed in the strike which was believed to have been carried...

A Baghdad court on Monday sentenced six Turkish women to death and a seventh to life in prison for membership of Daesh (ISIS), a judicial source said. The source told AFP that the women, all accompanied by small children in the court, had surrendered to Kurdish peshmerga fighters after...

 A top aide to former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi says he fears arrest if he returns to Libya over what he may know about corruption allegations against France's ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy and Gadhafi's alleged financial support to the former France leader. Moftah Missouri,...

The Arab League will hold an emergency meeting Tuesday on Israeli deadly attacks against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, league official said Monday. Saeed Abu Ali, assistant secretary-general for Palestine and the occupied Arab territories of the League States, said Saudi Arabia would...