Yemen's dominant Houthi group and its army allies fired a Scud missile at Saudi Arabia which the kingdom says it shot down on Saturday, in a major escalation of two months of war. In the first use of the long range ballistic Scud in the conflict, the missile was fired early Saturday morning...

An Austin, Texas man was sentenced on Friday to almost seven years in prison for attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State militant group. Michael Wolfe, 24, was sentenced to 82 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks in Austin, the U.S. Justice Department...

Greece delayed repayment of an IMF loan on Friday and a deputy minister said Athens might call snap elections to break an impasse with lenders that threatens to push the country into bankruptcy and out of the euro. European stocks fell and Greek bond yields shot higher as investors worried...

Tareq Aziz, who served as the voice of Saddam Hussein's government, died in Iraqi hospital Friday aged 79 after years of poor health as a convicted prisoner, a doctor said. "Tareq Aziz arrived at the Hussein Teaching Hospital at 3 pm," Dr Saadi al-Majed, the head of the health department in...