Turkish authorities issued detention warrants for 99 suspects including doctors and lawyers and have so far detained 78 of them, the state-run Anadolu agency said on Thursday, as part of a widening crackdown since last year’s failed coup attempt. The suspects were believed to be users...

A tribal sheikh was assassinated late Wednesday in the city of Shibam in Yemen’s eastern Hadhramaut province, according to a senior security source. "Unknown gunmen opened fire on Sheikh Abdullah bin Amer al-Kathiri in Shibam’s Baheira district," the security source, who spoke on...

By  Jamal Khashoggi When  Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen  erupted in March 2015, there was widespread Saudi popular support for it – including by me. Like other Saudi citizens, I was concerned about Iran’s sectarian expansionist policies, as its influence has extended...

Somalia’s government said Wednesday it had requested a U.S. air strike that killed scores of suspected militants to help pave the way for an upcoming ground offensive against Islamist group al-Shabaab. The U.S. military's Africa Command (Africom) said on Tuesday it had killed more...