The spokesman for a Saudi-led coalition behind a year-long military campaign against Yemen's Shiite rebels says it's ready to commit to a cease-fire as long as the rebels abide by a U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for their pullout from Yemeni cities. Brig. Gen. Ahmed al-Asiri told...

 Syrian mediators reached an agreement Friday for the release of some 300 cement workers kidnapped by the ISIS, a monitor said, but it was unclear exactly how many were freed. ISIS abducted the employees on Monday from Al-Badia cement factory outside the town of Dumeir, around 50...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Friday have thwarted major attack launched by regime forces and allied militias on Handarat district in northern Aleppo province, activists said. Bashar al-Assad's forces aim to capture the strategic Handarat camp to cut  rebels supply route as well to...

 Iraq's counter-terrorism forces backed by U.S.-led coalition air strikes reached the centre of the western town of Hit, dislodging ISIS militants and evacuating thousands of civilians, state television said Friday. A local commander said the pro-government forces had routed the militants...