A suspected al Qaeda suicide bombing, accompanied by an attack with guns and grenades, killed 10 soldiers guarding an intelligence building in the western Yemeni city of Hodaida on Friday, security sources said. The sources said two of the assailants were also killed. "Gunmen...

President Barack Obama said Thursday that he would keep 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan through next year. "I have decided to maintain our current posture of 9,800 troops in Afghanistan through most of next year, 2016," Obama announced at a White House pess conference, citing security risks by...

The Conquest Brigade, an Islamist rebel group operating in the town of Moadamiyet al-Sham southern Damascus, has tortured to death a Syrian man in his forties over claims he cooperated with Syrian regime, activists and victim's brother, journalist Ali Hamra said Thursday. Isam Hamra was...

Eight senior Iranian military officers have been killed in war-torn Syria -- where Iran supports the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad -- since 2013, including three generals killed this week. On Oct. 9, Hossein Hamadani, a senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards,...