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Israeli gunfire wounds 10 Palestinians in West Bank

Ten Palestinians were wounded by Israeli fire in the West Bank on Saturday during a raid by troops hunting the murderers of a Jewish settler couple, Palestinian police and medical sources said. Palestinians protesting against the raid in the territory's main northern city of Nablus hurled...

Nine dead at Afghan hospital after U.S. air strike

The U.S. military on Saturday acknowledged it may have bombed a hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz in an air strike that killed at least nine people and wounded 37. The incident could renew concerns about the use of U.S. air...

Six months of Yemen violence killed 505 children: UN

Six months of violence in Yemen has left at least 505 children dead, 702 injured and more than 1.7 million at risk of malnutrition, the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, said on Friday. "Across the country, nearly 10 million children -- 80 per cent of the country’s under-18 population...

Saudi Arabia signals easing of tension with Islamist cleric

The spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood attended a ceremony organized by Saudi Arabia in Qatar on Friday, signaling an easing of Riyadh's hostility toward the Islamist movement. Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, a Qatar-based cleric whose fiery sermons have strained ties with...