The United States and Britain on Tuesday imposed restrictions on carry-on electronic devices on planes coming from certain airports in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa in response to unspecified security threats. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said...

 Iran is sending advanced weapons and military advisers to Yemen’s rebel Houthi movement, stepping up support for its ally in a civil war whose outcome could sway the balance of power in the Middle East, regional and Western sources say. Iran’s enemy Saudi Arabia is leading an Arab...

(The Telegraph)- Russia is to build a base and send military personnel to northern Syria to train the YPG, the US-backed Kurdish group, the militia has said.   Redur Xelil, a spokesman for the group, said troops with armoured vehicles had already arrived near the town of Afrin, 25 miles...

A North Korean missile launch failed on Wednesday, with the rocket exploding within seconds, the U.S. military said, the latest in a series of North Korean weapons tests to rattle its neighbors and raise tension in the region. South Korea said the apparent test launch of one missile by...