(The Daily Star)- The U.N. envoy for Yemen announced a new bid for peace talks between the government and rebels, after the latest cease-fire failed to bring an end the 20-month conflict. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he was heading to Riyadh and Kuwait "to prepare for a new round" of talks,...

Israeli forces killed four gunmen belonging to an ISIS affiliate in Syria who had opened fire on soldiers in the occupied Golan Heights Sunday, a military spokesman said. Spokesman Peter Lerner told AFP the Israeli soldiers were targeted with machinegun fire and mortars and replied with...

Two mass graves of at least 18 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, thousands of whom have been killed and kidnapped by ISIS, have been discovered as security forces fight to dislodge the militants from Mosul, a local official said. Kurdish peshmerga forces found the grave near the Shababit...

Firefighters extinguished blazes ravaging Israel and West Bank settlements that forced tens of thousands to flee their homes and saw more than 20 people arrested, authorities said Sunday. "There are no active sites left," fire and rescue service spokesman Yoram Levy told AFP. "Since last...