President Barack Obama has said American forces being sent to a new operations center in the heart of the war against Islamic State will not engage in combat, but they will do almost everything but fight to support the beleaguered Iraqi forces. U.S. defense officials say the tasks of the troops...

Saudi-led coalition air strikes killed at least six people, Yemen's state news agency Saba said on Friday, and destroyed part of Sanaa's Old City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The raid, which began in the early hours, also injured several people, reduced five houses to rubble and damaged other...

An Iraqi official says the body of Tareq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former top aide who died last week in prison, is still at Baghdad International Airport under heavy security and due to be flown to Amman. The official from the Iraqi Aviation Authority said Friday that the body was supposed to be...

At least nine fighters were killed in clashes Friday between Islamic State and another Islamist force in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, a source in one group said. Fighting had first erupted in Derna - a long-time gathering point for jihadis - on Tuesday after a leader in the Islamist...