(Reuters) - American forces have begun advising Iraqi troops in the western Anbar province, the top U.S. general told Reuters, in a faster-than-expected expansion of an operation that is central to its campaign against Islamic State. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the...

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia , the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain agreed on Sunday to return their ambassadors to Qatar, signaling an end to an eight-month rift over Doha's support for Islamist groups. The announcement was made by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and came...

(Reuters) - Five Egyptian students were transferred to a military court on Sunday on charges of rioting at a university, a judicial source said, weeks after a law was passed allowing military trials of civilians for damaging state property. A Cairo criminal court transferred...

Thirty-eight people were killed in a deadly road accident in eastern  Ethiopia  on Saturday. The accident took place in Legebenti locality when an Isuzu bus heading for Adama city from Awash town in the eastern part of  Ethiopia  collided with a Sino truck heading...