Al-Qaeda in Yemen has taken over three southern towns just days after a deadly U.S. special operations raid targeting its commanders, a security official and tribal sources said Friday. The militant advance into the Abyan province towns of Loder, Shaqra and Ahwar came as the White House...

The new deputy director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran a CIA prison in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded - a harsh interrogation technique President Donald Trump has supported. CIA Director Mike Pompeo announced Thursday that he has selected Gina Haspel to be...

Water to the ISIS's Syrian bastion of Raqa has been cut after suspected coalition raids on the city's main pipeline, a monitor and activists told AFP on Friday. "After coalition air strikes, the main water line was ruptured and water was cut to all of Raqa city," said Hamoud al-Mousa of...

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday accused Ukrainian armed forces of violating the Geneva Convention by shelling civilian areas in eastern Ukraine and of using weapons systems banned under the terms of the Minsk peace deal. Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the ministry, told a news...