Six Yemenis held for more than a decade at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo have been flown to Oman for resettlement, the Pentagon said on Saturday, the latest step in President Barack Obama's slow push to close the facility. The release came a week after Defense Secretary Ash Carter said...

President Barack Obama has said American forces being sent to a new operations center in the heart of the war against Islamic State will not engage in combat, but they will do almost everything but fight to support the beleaguered Iraqi forces. U.S. defense officials say the tasks of the troops...

Saudi-led coalition air strikes killed at least six people, Yemen's state news agency Saba said on Friday, and destroyed part of Sanaa's Old City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The raid, which began in the early hours, also injured several people, reduced five houses to rubble and damaged other...

An Iraqi official says the body of Tareq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former top aide who died last week in prison, is still at Baghdad International Airport under heavy security and due to be flown to Amman. The official from the Iraqi Aviation Authority said Friday that the body was supposed to be...

At least nine fighters were killed in clashes Friday between Islamic State and another Islamist force in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, a source in one group said. Fighting had first erupted in Derna - a long-time gathering point for jihadis - on Tuesday after a leader in the Islamist...

Four Westerners who posed naked on Malaysia's highest peak were Friday sentenced to three days in jail and fined for obscene behavior in a public place, news reports said. The four were among 10 foreigners who stripped naked and took photos on Mount Kinabalu on May 30. A local official has said...

An Egyptian court Thursday sentenced a policeman to 15 years in jail over the fatal shooting of a woman during a peaceful leftist rally, a court official said. Shaima al-Sabbagh, a 34-year-old mother of a five-year-old, was struck by birdshot in January as police dispersed a small march on the...

Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance Bloc blamed the Future Movement Thursday for the deterioration of Lebanon’s state institutions. “The control, confiscation and monopolization approach the Future Movement has been practicing in government and administration over the last years, in contradiction...

A Tunisian court has annulled a 2011 decree confiscating the assets of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his inner circle after an appeal from the Ben Ali family, infuriating the government. In the months following Ben Ali's flight to Saudi Arabia after the revolution...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up on Wednesday just steps away from the ancient Egyptian temple of Karnak in Luxor, a southern city visited by millions of tourists every year, security and health officials said. Shortly after the explosion, police exchanged fire with and...

A string of bombings targeting Turkey's pro-Kurdish party during its campaign to enter parliament has been linked with Islamic State in Syria, the party's chairman said on Monday. Three people were killed in two blasts on Friday in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey,...

KRUEN, Germany: U.S. President Barack said on Monday he was confident ISIS militants would be driven out of Iraq and defeated but there would be setbacks along the way. In a meeting with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at the G7 summit in Germany, Obama said the militants' success in Ramadi...

The second hearing in the trial of jailed Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian on espionage charges took place behind closed doors in Tehran on Monday, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. The first hearing of Iranian-U.S. citizen Rezaian also had been held behind closed...

Iranian authorities detained a former vice-president on Monday on undeclared charges, local news agencies reported, months after another deputy to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sentenced in a graft scandal. "Former vice-president Hamid Baghaei had a charge sheet issued against him by the judiciary...

At least 19 Islamist militants and seven Pakistani soldiers were killed in a fierce gun battle early on Monday near Dattakhel, a town close to the Afghan border, military officials and militants said. According to security officials, seven Pakistani soldiers were killed when one of the...

Yemen's exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has played down next week's talks in Geneva between his country's warring parties, saying they will only address ways to implement a Security Council resolution demanding his enemies retreat. Hadi and his government's host, Saudi Arabia, have...

Saudi-led air strikes killed at least 44 people during an air raid on the main headquarters of the Yemeni army in central Sanaa on Sunday, the Houthi-run state news agency Saba said. The agency said that more than 100 people, including civilians, were also wounded in the attack...

  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's hopes of assuming greater powers suffered a serious blow on Sunday when the ruling AK Party failed to win an outright majority in a parliamentary election, preliminary results showed. With 97 percent of ballots counted, the AKP had taken...

A military base was targeted by mortar fire in southeast Turkey on Saturday, the general staff said in a statement Sunday. There were no casualties. The statement said terrorists attacked the Daglica base close to the Iraqi border in Hakkari province at around 12.35 p.m. local time (1035GMT)...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cast his vote as high-profile figures join millions of Turkish citizens going to the polls in the country’s 25th general election.   Speaking to the press in Istanbul after voting, Erdogan said that the turnout of Sunday's election appeared to...