Several thousand protesters, most of them members of Shiite paramilitary forces, gathered in central Baghdad Saturday to demand the withdrawal of Turkish forces from Iraq. Iraq says Turkey deployed troops and tanks to a base in the country's north last week without its permission, sparking a...

Saudi Arabian women voted for the first time on Saturday in local council elections and also stood as candidates, a step hailed by some activists in the Islamic patriarchy as a historic change, but by others as merely symbolic. "As a first step it is a great achievement. Now...

A ceasefire in Yemen's civil war will start on Dec. 14, the eve of planned peace talks in Switzerland next week, the head of the Houthi delegation to the peace talks said Saturday. "Based on what had been agreed upon, there will be a halt of the aggression on the 14th of this month," Mohammed...

 A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi position on the border with Saudi Arabia Saturday, killing six guards, including a commander, officials said. The attack by the bomber, who detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at the headquarters of the Hafr Zawiyah border post in Iraq's vast Anbar...