Yemen's Houthis fired 10 Badr-1 ballistic missiles at Saudi Arabia's Jizan airport, the group's military spokesman said Sunday, adding that the attack left dozens killed and wounded. The military spokesperson for the Iran-backed Houthi movement described the attack as 'the largest operation...

Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi accused Israel of a deadly drone attack on Sunday, the first time it directly blames the Jewish state after several of the paramilitary force's bases were hit by suspicious blasts. The attack struck a position held by Brigade 45, a Hashed al-Shaabi unit based about...

Authorities on Sunday defended blocking opposition Indian politicians from visiting Muslim-majority Kashmir, saying it was to "avoid controversy" weeks after stripping the restive region of its autonomy and imposing a major clampdown. India's Hindu-nationalist government has been criticised...

Iran wants to export a minimum of 700,000 barrels per day of its oil and ideally up to 1.5 million bpd if the West wants to negotiate with Tehran to save a 2015 nuclear deal, two Iranian officials and one diplomat told Reuters Sunday. "As a goodwill gesture and a step towards creating space...

Pep Guardiola hailed David Silva as "one of the best players" he has ever seen after the Spanish midfielder inspired Manchester City's 3-1 win at Bournemouth on Sunday. City captain Silva was involved in all three goals as the champions clinched their second Premier League win of the...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe showed their differences over the seriousness of North Korea’s series of short-range missile launches on Sunday, while maintaining that they would remain in synch on the issue. Trump, who prizes his relationship with North...

In a surprise move, Iran’s foreign minister flew in for talks at the group of seven leaders’ summit on Sunday as French President Emmanuel Macron ramps up efforts to ease tensions between Tehran and Washington, although a U.S.-Iran meeting was not scheduled. European leaders have struggled...

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday the fall of two Israeli drones overnight in suburbs of Beirut dominated by the Iranian-backed group amounted to a very dangerous move. Nasrallah, whose group fought a month-long war with Israel in 2006, said in a televised speech: “The...

Brazil on Sunday deployed two Hercules C-130 aircraft to douse fires devouring parts of the Amazon rainforest, as hundreds of new blazes were ignited ahead of nationwide protests over the destruction. Heavy smoke covered the city of Porto Velho in the northwestern state of Rondonia where...

Saudi Arabia is the one to decide on continuing the role of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the Saudi-led coalition against Houthi rebels in Yemen, the UAE minister of state for foreign affairs said Sunday.   "The Saudi-UAE coalition is a strategic necessity in light of the...

Israel said on Sunday an air strike against an arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards in Syria that it accused of planning "killer drone attacks" showed Tehran that its forces were vulnerable anywhere. A senior Revolutionary Guards commander denied that Iranian targets had been hit late on...

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said two Israeli drones which crashed in a suburb of Beirut dominated by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah were designed to stir up regional tensions. In the first such incident in more than a decade, one drone fell and second exploded before dawn near the...

U.S. President Donald Trump Sunday said he was "not happy" about North Korea's latest missile test but played down the seriousness of the incident. "I'm not happy about it but then again he's not in violation of the agreement," Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the G7 summit after...

Police in Iraq say Daesh (ISIS) militants have fired mortar rounds at a soccer field near a Shiite shrine, killing six civilians and wounding nine others. The attack occurred late Saturday in the village of Daquq, in Iraq's northern Kirkuk province, as people were exercising. Police...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that G7 leaders had agreed joint action on Iran with the aim of defusing tensions and opening a new negotiation with Tehran. "We agreed on what we wanted to say jointly on Iran," Macron told LCI television. There is a message from the G7 on our...

The United Arab Emirates’ minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, said late on Saturday that “the Saudi-UAE coalition is a strategic necessity in light of the surrounding challenges, and Yemen is a clear example.” “As a result of our strategic relationship with Saudi Arabia,...

An Israeli drone went down and another exploded in southern Lebanon early Sunday, an official with Lebanese group Hezbollah said.   One drone crashed over the Moawwad neighborhood in southern Lebanon after midnight and its debris were taken to a safe place by Hezbollah members,...

North Korea said Sunday leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of a "newly developed super-large multiple rocket launcher," another demonstration of its expanding weapons arsenal apparently aimed at increasing its leverage ahead of a possible resumption of nuclear talks with the U.S....

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday backed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as the "right man" for Brexit as the two leaders held a warm first meeting at a G7 summit marked by tensions over trade and worries about the Amazon. Johnson and Trump were on obviously friendly terms as they...

Iran has blacklisted U.S.-based think-tank the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and its chief Mark Dubowitz on accusations of being behind "economic terrorism" against the Islamic republic. The Iranian foreign ministry said in a statement issued late Saturday that it had "added the...