Yemen's spiralling health crisis has forced organisations treating war-wounded to shift their focus to diseases "nobody should die of," the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday. In an interview with AFP in Beirut, the head of the ICRC's Yemen delegation, Alexandre Faite,...

Palestinian security forces have arrested five journalists from local media outlets, including one affiliated with Hamas, a journalists' union and official media said Wednesday. Security forces arrested the five journalists from different Palestinian media in the West Bank in recent days,...

The U.S-led coalition fighting Islamic State denied responsibility on Tuesday for an attack near the Syrian border, which killed dozens of members of an Iraqi Shi'ite militia and, that group said, several of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards. A spokesman for the Iran-backed Kataib Sayyid...

Four soldiers and six suspected Al-Qaeda attackers were killed and 10 soldiers wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber and gunmen tried to storm an army camp in southern Yemen, a local security official said. Al-Qaeda has exploited more than two years of civil war between President...