Gunmen from the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab killed at least eight officers in a raid on a police station near the capital, police and the militants said on Saturday. "Al-Shabab killed eight of my colleagues and took three of our cars," Major Abdikadir Hussein, a police officer, told...

An Israeli civilian was killed and another wounded in the occupied West Bank on Friday in an attack apparently carried out by a Palestinian gunman, a hospital spokeswoman and security forces said. Police and the military said the attack took place near the Jewish settlement of Dolev in the...

At least six people were killed and 21 others were injured in several separate explosions in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and the eastern province of Diyala late Friday, security sources said. One person was killed and two others were injured when a bomb placed in a vehicle carrying a Sunni...

 WikiLeaks is in the process of publishing more than 500,000 Saudi diplomatic documents to the Internet, the transparency website said Friday, a move that echoes its famous release of US State Department cables in 2010, AP reported.  WikiLeaks said in a statement that it has already...