A gunman killed a senior Yemeni army officer in Aden Monday, as violence in the southern port city which is the headquarters of the Saudi-backed government showed no let-up, military sources said. The gunman, who was on the back of a motorcycle, killed General Abedrabbo Hussein as he was...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- 'Hekayat Hassan', or Hassan's Story, a documentary aired Saturday by the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news channel, has sparked outrage in the kingdom and abroad since the 'biography' has glorified Lebanese Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah. Activists...

Military forces loyal to Libya's eastern government said on Sunday they had pushed back Islamist fighters in several areas of Benghazi, seizing the strategic port of Marisa. The Libyan National Army said it had also taken control of the town of Ajdabiya, about 150 km (90 miles)...

Three journalists working for Anadolu Agency, kidnapped by PKK terrorists for over 48 hours in Turkey's southeastern Mardin province, have been freed. Anadolu Agency correspondent Rauf Maltas (31), photojournalist Onur Coban (36) and cameraman Kenan Yesilyurt (26) were assigned last week to...

Clashes between Iraqi tribesmen and the ISIS group in Fallujah have halted after the extremists detained dozens of residents of the city west of Baghdad, officials said Sunday. The fighting between the Sunni Arab tribesmen and ISIS in Fallujah, one of two cities it still holds in Iraq,...

PKK terrorists who abducted three journalists working for Anadolu Agency in Turkey's southeastern Mardin province have held the trio for over 48 hours. The journalists are being held at an unknown location; their cameras were also seized. Anadolu Agency correspondent Rauf Maltas (31),...

Twenty-one people detained over the terror attack that hit the Turkish capital on Feb. 17 were sent to Ankara courthouse earlier on Sunday, according to judicial sources. The detainees were held across Turkey having connection with Wednesday’s bomb attack in Ankara. A convoy of military-owned...

Australia’s immigration minister confirmed Sunday that an asylum seeker baby who doctors have refused to discharge from a hospital in Queensland state will be placed in community detention rather than immediately deported to an offshore detention center in Nauru. The announcement comes...

Turkey's presidency said U.S. President Barack Obama had shared his concerns over the Syrian conflict and promised his support on Friday, hours after a tense exchange between the two NATO allies over the role of Kurdish militants. In a phone conversation that lasted one hour...

Saudi Arabia's state-run news agency says kingdom is halting $3 billion arms deal with Lebanon over the Mediterranean country's recent diplomatic positions — a veiled reference to the kingdom's spat with Iran. Riyadh says it would also halt a $1 billion deal to equip Lebanese police. The...

U.S. warplanes carried out air strikes early on Friday morning in the western Libyan city of Sabratha, where Islamic State militants operate, killing as many as 40 people. A U.S. military spokesman said the attacks targeted a senior Tunisian militant linked to attacks in Tunisia...

Two Turkish soldiers and one police officer were killed in an attack by Kurdish militants in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Friday, the armed forces said in a statement. It said the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant attack occurred in the city's Sur district, parts of which have...

(Daily Sabah)- Two Turkish students have disappeared after they were arrested by Egyptian police forces on early Sunday from their residence in Cairo, a London- based human rights group reported Thursday. Two brothers, Mücahit and Cihat Kırtoklu, both 21, were living in Cairo to study...

"Any rice?" says the woman, leaning into a shop in Cairo and brandishing a green smartcard that carries her family's food credits. The shopkeeper shakes his head: "Only sugar." Behind him, more than half the shelves are empty. Rice and cooking oil are nowhere to be seen. Tens...

Two Palestinian 14-year-olds stabbed and killed an Israeli in a packed supermarket in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israeli and Palestinian officials said, as a five-month wave of bloodshed shows no sign of abating. An armed civilian shot the two teens, who were taken for...

On the frontline of Brazil's fight against Zika, Vandson Holanda sends Roman Catholic volunteers into the poorest areas of this city, showing residents how to protect themselves against mosquitoes that carry the virus linked to birth defects. Get rid of trash where water...

Turkey summoned ambassadors of the five permanent member countries of the U.N. Security Council Thursday, NTV reported, following the bombing in Ankara. Turkey's foreign ministry could not be reached for comment. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had earlier said evidence about Wednesday's...

Turkish warplanes bombed camps belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq late on Wednesday, security sources said, following a car bomb attack in Ankara that killed 28 people. Turkey's CNN Turk television said a group of 60-70 PKK militants, including senior...

An Iraqi army helicopter crashed on Wednesday due to "hostile fire" west of Baghdad where security forces were fighting Islamic State militants, who claimed responsibility for downing it. The helicopter crashed in the Fuhailat area, a frontline 15 km (10 miles) southeast of the...

British Typhoon fighter jets were sent to intercept two Russian bombers heading towards British airspace Wednesday, a spokeswoman from the Ministry of Defense said. Intercepts of Russian aircraft by NATO have increased over the last year amid heightened tensions between the West and Moscow...