At least 25 soldiers and rebels have died in clashes around a key military base near Yemen's west coast, military and medical sources said Saturday. Loyalist forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition launched an assault to seize the Khaled Ibn Al-Walid base from Shiite Houthi rebels and their...

( The New Arab )- Russia criticised the world's chemical weapons watchdog for not sending experts to the site of an alleged chemical attack in Syria, saying it was "unacceptable to analyse events from a distance". But the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is in a...

At least 43 people were killed Saturday in a suicide car bomb attack on buses carrying Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held towns, opposition-aligned activists said in an updated toll. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said most of the dead were evacuees, but they...

Iran will ask "no one's permission" to build up its missile capability, President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday, in what appeared to be a defiant response to U.S. efforts to hamper the Iranian military. Facing an election in May where he hopes to secure a second four-year term, Rouhani has...