Eight civilians were killed and 30 others wounded in a "shocking" bomb attack against a centre for displaced people in Yemen, the UN said Sunday. The bombing hit the centre in the Haradh district in the northwestern province of Hajja on Saturday, according to the UN humanitarian coordinator...

A number of militants were killed in an airstrike in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, according to the Egyptian military on Sunday. The airstrike targeted a “terrorist outpost” in the northern Sinai Peninsula, military spokesman Colonel Tamer Rifai said in a statement. He said a...

The new U.N. special envoy for Syria held talks Sunday with the head of the Arab League, whose members appear divided about whether to readmit the war-torn country. The League, which will hold its annual summit in Tunisia in March, suspended Syria's membership in November 2011 as the...

Iran says Arab separatists have killed two policemen who were on patrol in the country's oil-rich south. The semi-official Fars news agency quoted police official Ali Ghasempour on Sunday as saying the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz, a "terrorist and separatist...