(Reuters) - At least four people were killed and more than 20 wounded by a suicide bomb attack on a security checkpoint east of the Libyan city of Misrata, a local official news agency reported on Sunday. Libya  is caught up in a conflict between two rival governments and armed forces...

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Saturday that Egypt would not give up its brothers in the Arab Gulf and that it would act to protect them if necessary. "Egypt will not give up its brothers in the Gulf," the Egyptian President said. "We will act to protect them if...

 Turkey’s highly-debated domestic security law that gives enhanced powers to Turkish police among a host of other measures has entered into force. The domestic security law was published Saturday in the official gazette after it was passed by the Turkish parliament’s general assembly on...

(Reuters) - Armed Yemeni tribesmen in pickup trucks entered the eastern port town of Mukalla on Saturday to drive out suspected al Qaeda fighters who took control 48 hours earlier, residents said. The fighters are part of a tribal alliance in the eastern Hadramawt province which...

U.S. President Barack Obama personally offered his condolences on Friday for the victims of a deadly attack on a Kenyan university that left dead scores of students.  "Words cannot adequately condemn the terrorist atrocities that took place at Garissa University College, where innocent men...

(Anadolu Agency)- Iran will live up to promises it made during the nuclear talks if the other side does the same,  Rouhani was quoted as saying on Friday by the country's official IRNA news agency.  A framework deal was reached between Iran and the P5+1 countries on...

Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh has reportedly fled the country aboard a Russian plane, Yemeni Foreign Minister Riyad Yassin said Saturday. "There was information that Saleh had departed Yemen aboard a Russian aircraft that had arrived in Sanaa airport to evacuate...

(Reuters) - On April 1, the city of Tikrit was liberated from the extremist group Islamic State. The Shi'ite-led central government and allied militias, after a month-long battle, had expelled the barbarous Sunni radicals. Then, some of the liberators took revenge. Near...

(Anadolu Agency)- The Shiite Houthi militant group on Friday claimed that Saudi-led warplanes have destroyed the presidential airplane during an attack on Aden International Airport in southern Yemen. The pro-Houthi Al-Massira television channel on Friday reported that the...

Preliminary data retrieved from the second “black box" has also proved that the co -pilot of the Germanwings flight deliberately crashed the plane that went down last week in the French Alps, French investigators said Friday. The French authority,...

(Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi called on security forces to arrest anyone breaking the law in the city of Tikrit, where looting has been witnessed since the Sunni area was taken back from Islamic State militants this week. "The prime minister calls on the...

(Reuters) - Russia expressed outrage on Friday over a "frenzied anti-Russian campaign" by U.S. media and political analysts, stepping up a war of words that has intensified during the Ukraine crisis. Ties between Moscow and Washington have sunk to their lowest level since...

(Reuters) - An Egyptian militant group allied with Islamic State claimed responsibility on Friday for attacks on military checkpoints which killed 15 soldiers and two civilians in the Sinai. Sinai Province said in a statement its fighters used rocket-propelled grenades and other...

A framework accord to curb Iran's nuclear program forged on Thursday could eventually allow Tehran to reclaim lost ground in the global oil market. Yet the deal all but guarantees that cannot happen before next year. By ensuring that sanctions remain intact until Western powers...

(Reuters) - When Defense Minister Tea Banh addressed graduates last month at Cambodia's prestigious Army Institute, he directed his thanks to the guests who made it all possible: a group of crisply dressed officers from China's People's Liberation Army (PLA). The institute,...

(Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi fighters and their allies seized a central Aden district on Thursday, striking a heavy blow against the Saudi-led coalition which has waged a week of air strikes to try to stem advances by the Iran-allied Shi'ite group. Hours after the Houthis took over Aden's...

(Reuters) - Bahrain police arrested prominent democracy activist Nabeel Rajab on Thursday for comments he made on his Twitter account seen as "harmful" to civil peace, the kingdom's interior ministry said. Rajab took a leading role in Shi'ite-led mass demonstrations in Bahrain in 2011...

  (Reuters) -   Iran   and world powers reached a framework on curbing Iran's nuclear program at marathon talks in Switzerland on Thursday that will allow further negotiations towards a final agreement. A Western official said it would include limits on Iran's enrichment...

(Reuters) - Soldiers launched searches in the occupied West Bank on Thursday for an Israeli feared abducted since disappearing after heading to a Palestinian village for tools to fix a flat tire, Israeli spokesmen said. The searches were the most widespread by Israeli forces in the...

Security guards at Istanbul  Police Department  in Vatan Street returned fire on two armed attackers Wednesday, killing one, while the other was caught soon after, said Istanbul Governor  Vasip Sahin. A female attacker, carrying bombs and a long-barrel...