Iraq sent an armored army division and a police strike force into the southern oil city of Basra to disarm residents amid intensified feuding between rival Shi'ite Muslim tribes, a local official and three security sources said on Friday. The majority of crude exports from...

Lebanese security forces said on Thursday they had arrested a senior member of an al Qaeda-linked militant group that has carried out attacks in the country. A security source described Bilal Mezher as an "important catch", close to Sirajeddine Zureiqat, head of the Abdullah...

An explosion hit a major oil pipeline south of the Libyan terminal of Ras Lanouf overnight between Wednesday and Thursday, a spokesman for the Libya's National Oil Corp said. Mohamed al-Harari said it was not clear what had caused the explosion at the pipeline, which has been closed for...

Ten Yemeni prisoners held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo have been transferred to Oman, a U.S. official said on Thursday, bringing the inmate population below the symbolically important milestone of 100 as President Barack Obama seeks to close the facility. Oman's state news...