Saudi Arabia is striving to develop a homegrown defense industry but cutting reliance on foreign equipment will take years, the head of a major military development firm said Thursday. The kingdom is the world's third-biggest defense spender, but only two percent of that outlay is local....

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman Thursday said the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia was working together with the forces of Bashar Assad in the north of Aleppo province. At a news conference in Ankara, Ibrahim Kalin also said Turkey has conducted the "most intense" talks to help end...

The Egyptian president is defending the tough economic measures his government has undertaken, saying there was no other alternative in the face of deteriorating economy. Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi says that "structural reforms" are an imperative for Egypt and that the measures that have been...

A Pakistani aircraft carrying 47 people issued a Mayday call before losing radar contact and crashing into a mountain, killing everyone on board, authorities said, as they began collecting DNA Thursday to identify victims. The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight smashed into a...