About 2 million children were out of school in Yemen, the UN Children's Fund UNICEF has warned. "Nearly half a million children have dropped out of school since the 2015 escalation of conflict in Yemen, bringing the total number of out-of-school children to 2 million," UNICEF said in a...

Israeli forces on Tuesday detained three Palestinians who sneaked into Israel through border with the Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli military. In a statement, the army said the three Gazans were in possession of knives and bombs when they were arrested. No further details...

 Iraq's armed forces have instructions to prevent "foreign fighters" from launching cross-border attacks on Turkey, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told his Turkish counterpart, Binali Yildirim. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Turkey's intelligence...

The Islamist gunman who killed four people in southern France last week had been summoned by anti-terror police for questioning shortly before his shooting rampage, a police source told AFP Tuesday. Radouane Lakdim, a 25-year-old Moroccan-born French national, had been on a list of...