(The Daily Star)- A Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in Yemen violated international humanitarian law with a so-called "double tap" air strike on a funeral gathering in the rebel-held capital Sanaa, United Nations sanctions monitors told the Security Council. The U.N. monitors said there...

(The Daily Star)- An American soldier died on Thursday from wounds sustained in a bombing in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said. It was the first U.S. service member to die from fighting in Iraq since the launch of a massive operation to retake the Islamic State-held city of Mosul earlier...

The U.S. on Thursday designated a leading Lebanese Hezbollah commander as a terrorist who the State Department says has been operating in Syria and reportedly in Yemen. Haytham ‘Ali Tabataba’i, also known as Abu ‘Ali Al-Tabataba’I, commanded Hezbollah’s special forces, the...

 Rebel violations mean there is "no ceasefire" in Yemen, the spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition said on Thursday, the first day of a truce under a UN plan. "There is no ceasefire at all," Major General Ahmed Assiri told AFP. Huthi rebels and their allies had breached the truce...