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Air raids kill 23 rebels in Yemen south: govt official

At least 23 Yemeni rebels were killed in fresh Saudi-led coalition air strikes Thursday on their positions in the southern town of Daleh, a government official there said. In Yemen's third city of Taez, meanwhile, a Red Cross official said his team retrieved the bodies of 10 pro-government...

Jordan's crown prince at UN takes on jihadist 'dark world'

Jordan's 20-year-old crown prince on Thursday called for measures to prevent the world's youth from being "lured into the dark world" of Islamic extremists as he became the youngest person ever to chair a Security Council meeting. Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah presided over the debate on...

US mulling training Iraqis to call in air strikes

Washington is working with Iraqi leaders to hone military operations against Islamic militants and is mulling whether to train Iraqis to directly call in US air strikes, a US official said Thursday. During a visit to Washington last week, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi last week urged...