The State Department said Saturday that it would only allow Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to visit the country's ambassador in a U.S. hospital if Tehran releases a detained American citizen. "Foreign Minister Zarif would like to visit a colleague who is in the hospital...

Nine people, including a soldier and a policeman, were killed in two separate attacks by militants in restive northeast Nigeria, officials and vigilantes said Saturday. Fighters from the Daesh (ISIS) aligned Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group attacked Nigerian and Chadian...

Yemen's Houthi movement said Saturday it had carried out a major attack near the border with the southern Saudi region of Najran and captured many troops and vehicles, but there was no immediate confirmation from Saudi Arabian authorities. The Houthis' military spokesperson said in a...

Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem Saturday demanded an immediate withdrawal of all U.S. and Turkish troops from his country and warned that Syrian government forces had the right to take countermeasures if they refused. The United States has around 1,000 troops in Syria tackling...