Two Saudi border guards have been killed and five others wounded by shellfire on the frontier with Yemen, official media reported. The deaths occurred when "military missiles from Yemen" struck their position at Zahran South in the Asir border region Wednesday, Riyadh's interior ministry...

A campaign led by Shi'ite paramilitaries to drive Islamic State militants from Iraq's Sunni heartland was rebranded on Wednesday after criticism that the name chosen for the push was overtly sectarian. The move was a response to fears that Iraq's reliance on Shi'ite paramilitaries to defeat...

Saudi-led airstrikes killed at least 80 people near Yemen's border with Saudi Arabia and in the capital Sanaa Wednesday, residents said, the deadliest day of bombing in over two months of war in Yemen. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized Sanaa last September and then thrust into central and...

Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian went on trial on espionage charges behind closed doors in Tehran on Tuesday, 10 months after he was arrested at his home and imprisoned, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. His wife, Yeganeh Salehi, and a woman described as a photojournalist...