Iraqi Prime Minister Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday that three Americans who disappeared in Iraq last week "just went missing," and he very much doubted any Iranian involvement. Asked by a pool reporter at the start of a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Davos...

An Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent is missing and is believed to have been kidnapped while reporting in the besieged Yemeni city of Taiz. Hamdi al-Bokari, a Yemeni national, was last seen around 10pm on Monday in the middle of the war-torn central city, according to a statement by Al Jazeera...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu accused Russia Thursday of jeopardizing peace talks on Syria planned for next week by insisting on the inclusion of "terrorist groups" such as the Kurdish YPG militia on the opposition side. Turkey is concerned by the growing influence of the YPG, across...

Airstrikes by Saudi-led forces hit oil storage facilities at Yemen's Ras Isa port on the Red Sea Thursday, killing at least five people, oil workers said. They said the attack targeted a facility used to load tanker trucks with refined products for domestic distribution. The area was on fire...