Witnesses say a car bomb has exploded in the southern city of Aden at a checkpoint steps away from the central bank, which has been relocated recently from the rebel-held capital, Sanaa. The bomb injured three soldiers and caused panic in the busy commercial district of Crater, the...

Iranian-backed Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary groups said they started an offensive on Saturday against Islamic State positions west of Mosul, assisting in the campaign to take back the city. The militias, collectively known as Hashid Shaabi or Popular Mobilization Forces, started moving in the...

Two suicide bombers killed at least five people Saturday in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the heart of a seven-year-old insurgency by Islamist Boko Haram militants, a military source and residents said. The first attack occurred at 0600 GMT in front of a camp for displaced...

(The Daily Star)- Iraqi paramilitaries launched an operation Saturday to retake the town of Tal Afar from ISIS and cut extremist supply lines from Mosul to Syria, a spokesman said. Forces from the Hashed al-Shaabi, a paramilitary umbrella organisation dominated by Iran-backed Shiite...