The armed Houthi movement attacked a Saudi warship off the western coast of Yemen on Monday, causing an explosion that killed two crew members and injured three others, Saudi state news agency SPA reported. Separately, the Houthis said they launched a ballistic missile at a Saudi-led...

(BBC)- Israel's prime minister has accused Iran of carrying out a missile test in "flagrant violation" of a UN security council resolution. Benjamin Netanyahu said he would discuss renewing sanctions when he met US President Donald Trump in February. Iran has carried out several such...

(Middle East Monitor)- While the media attention has been focused on the death of one US serviceman who was killed during a raid in Yemen, one of the most tragic casualties of the assault ordered by President Donald Trump was an eight-year-old girl. The raid took place over the weekend, as...

(Daily Mail)- Islamic State's chief executioner, who has beheaded more than 100 people, has been stabbed to death in an ambush in Iraq. Nicknamed Abu Sayyaf, he was dubbed one of the terror groups scariest decapitators and was paraded in their sick videos for his huge frame. He was also...

Jordan's King Abdullah will hold talks with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration in Washington Monday on how to bolster the kingdom's domestic security amid the growing risk of ISIS militant attacks, officials and diplomats said. They said the monarch, who will be the first Arab...

A suspected U.S. drone strike killed two men believed to be al-Qaeda militants in central Yemen, local officials said early Monday, hours after American commandos carried out the first military operation authorized by President Donald Trump. The officials said the pilotless plane targeted a...

Iraq's Popular Mobilization on Sunday called on the Iraqi government to ban U.S. nationals from entering Iraq and to expel those who are already in the country, in a reaction to the new U.S. travel curbs on Iraqis. Popular Mobilization is mainly a coalition of Shiite paramilitary groups...

A Palestinian was shot dead Sunday and five others were wounded by Israeli soldiers at the Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medical sources said. The person who was killed at the camp located in the northern West Bank was identified as 19-year-old Mohammed Abu Khalifa, the...

Helicopter-born commandoes, believed to be Americans, launched a raid in southern Yemen at dawn on Sunday that killed several people, including three al Qaeda suspects, residents told Reuters. The gunbattle in the rural Yakla district of al-Bayda province killed a senior leader in Yemen's...

An arrest warrant against the former governor of Mosul has been reissued by the Iraqi government. Atheel al-Nujaifi, commander of the Nineveh Guard militia, was first charged in October 2015 with allegedly spying for the Turkish military. "[An] arrest warrant has been issued against...

(Wall Street Journal)-  Jordan’s King Abdullah II is scheduled to arrive in Washington on Monday and could mark the first Arab leader to meet with President Donald Trump, just days after he signed an executive order that suspended the U.S. refugee program and blocked people from Iraq, Syria...

Yemeni government forces have advanced into the Red Sea town of Mokha but Shiite rebels are still putting up fierce resistance, a military official said Saturday. Forces loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, captured the police headquarters and several...

Two Iraqi soldiers were killed when a suicide bombing struck a security checkpoint in the western city of Fallujah on Saturday, according to a local police officer.  A bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle at the checkpoint in the city’s western entrance, police officer Ahmed...

(Daily Mail)- Iraqi forces say they have uncovered a terrifying arsenal of weapons including mustard gas at an ISIS arms warehouse in Mosul. The weapons were found among dozens of rockets hidden in a storage unit in the city with Iraqi troops claiming the haul presented a 'huge chemical...

Saudi Arabia showed off its next-generation fighter jets this week, the first batch of military items bought in a $30 billion US arms deal, as the UN warned the kingdom’s military campaign in Yemen may pull the war-torn country into famine. The kingdom unveiled the new Boeing F-15SA jets...

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday described Israel's recent decision to build a host of new Jewish-only housing units in the occupied West Bank as "illegal". "In accordance with international law, this decision by Israel is illegal," the ministry said in a statement. Israeli plans...

Turkish authorities have detained three Iraqi brothers who are suspected of making suicide bombs for ISIS. Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported Friday that the suspects were caught during police raids in the Black Sea coastal city of Samsun. They are accused of setting up a factory in...

Ten civilians, including a child, have been killed in Turkish airstrikes and shelling in and around a Syrian town held by ISIS, activists said Friday. The bombardment hit the northern town of Al-Bab and the nearby area of Tadif, both held by ISIS, Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human...

The ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield in northern Syria and the clashes with Daesh terrorists in Al-Bab are in Turkey's national interest and security, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Thursday. Speaking to TGRT television, Kurtulmus said: “We will continue to support the Free...

(Daily Sabah)- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the construction of 2,500 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank, according to a statement issued by his office on Tuesday. The approval is the second of its kind since Donald Trump assumed the U.S. presidency last...