At least 27 people, including foreign tourists, were killed when at least one gunman opened fire on a Tunisian beachside hotel in the popular resort of Sousse on Friday, an interior ministry spokesman said. Police were still clearing the area around the Imperial Marhaba hotel and the body of...

Oil prices fell on Friday as investors awaited the outcome of Iranian nuclear talks which could lead to a big increase in Iranian crude exports at a time when the market is already over-supplied. Dealers also kept an eye on negotiations to try to avert a Greek debt default and avoid Greece's...

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Kuwaiti Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait city during Friday prayers, wounding at least eight people, Kuwaiti newspaper al-Jarida said on social media. The newspaper said the attack targeted Imam al-Sadeq Mosque in the Sawaber district. "Eight casualties...

The United Nations Security Council and U.N. aid chief Stephen O'Brien on Thursday pushed for more aid and commercial access to Yemen, where a near total blockade by Saudi Arabia has slowed shipments to the war-torn Arabian Peninsula country to a trickle. O'Brien said 80 percent of Yemen's 25...

Islamic State militants detonated a car bomb and then opened fire on Iraqi troops in the western province of Anbar on Thursday, killing 14 soldiers, security sources said. Iraqi government forces and their Shi'ite militia allies are hoping to recapture Anbar's provincial capital Ramadi, which...

(Tranlation by Yusra Ahmed) A Saudi diplomatic document published on WikiLeaks revealed that As-Safir, the Lebanese newspaper was fund by the former Libyan president Muamar Gaddafi, then it was rescued by the support of an American- originally Syrian businessman. The document forwarded from...

A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb at a gathering of Iraqi Sunni tribal leaders, killing 14 people in an attack claimed Wednesday by the Islamic State group, police said. “Fourteen people were killed and at least 24 wounded,” a police captain said of the Tuesday night bombing in the...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday the United States wanted to destroy entirely the Islamic republic's nuclear industry, state TV reported. "America is after destroying our nuclear industry altogether," he said. "Our negotiators' aim is to safeguard Iran's integrity...

An Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group video released Tuesday showed the militants murdering 16 men by drowning them in a cage, decapitating them with explosives and firing a rocket-propelled grenade into a car. The video, apparently shot in Iraq's Nineveh province, was one of the most...

 (The Daily Star)- The ex-wife of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who is formally under the custody of Lebanese authorities, allegedly gave birth at one of Lebanon's military hospitals, pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat reported Tuesday. The daily cited judicial sources as saying that the that...

The head of the Internal Security Force’s Information Branch vowed to block attempts to usher Lebanon’s largest prison back to an era of impunity, five months after security forces first stormed the notorious facility. “We will not allow a return to the emirate that is Roumieh [prison] after...

Australia is close to confirming the reported death in Iraq of two home-grown militants who shot to infamy last year after being photographed holding the severed heads of Syrian soldiers, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Tuesday. Australia issued arrest warrants for suspected Australian...

A U.S. air strike on Mosul, Iraq, killed an Islamic State fighter linked to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, the Pentagon said on Monday. The June 15 air strike killed Ali Awni al-Harzi, whom the Pentagon said was a "person of interest" in the Benghazi attack,...

German authorities have released Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour, who had been detained at Berlin airport at the request of the Egyptian government. Accompanied by his lawyers, Mansour greeted his supporters after his release on Monday, and thanked the German court for its decision. "I...

At least eight policemen and civilians were wounded on Monday when explosions hit two houses in Egypt's El-Arish, the provincial capital of the North Sinai region, security and medical sources said. Militants planted two bombs in two adjacent houses, both inhabited by police, the...

More than 20 air strikes by Arab forces hit targets controlled by Houthi rebels across Yemen late on Sunday, residents said. An Arab military coalition has been bombing the Houthis for three months to restore the country's exiled government and fend off what they see as Iranian...

  A Taliban suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday, shattering windows and forcing lawmakers to flee, as a second district in two days fell to the Islamist group in the north. Violence has spiraled in Afghanistan since the departure of most...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Leaked Saudi Arabia's cables revealed that Mostafa Bakri, prominent Egyptian Journalist, had requested funds from Saudi Arabia to establish a news channel, saying it will face the expanding of the Shiite sect. According to the WikiLeaks document, the Saudi Minister...

Disruption of fuel supplies due to fighting between rebel groups in northern Syria is threatening the closure of hospitals and paralyzing the work of ambulances and rescue services, an international medical charity said Sunday. ISIS militants have closed a checkpoint under their control in the...

A prominent Al-Jazeera journalist will remain in German custody for a second night, prosecutors said Sunday, adding they have not yet decided whether to extradite him to Egypt or set him free. As dozens of supporters protested Sunday in front of the Berlin court building where Ahmed Mansour was...