Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday that US President Donald Trump's decision to ban arrivals from seven Muslim majority countries was "a great gift to extremists". "#MuslimBan will be recorded in history as a great gift to extremists and their supporters," Zarif...

Helicopter-born commandoes, believed to be Americans, launched a raid in southern Yemen at dawn on Sunday that killed several people, including three al Qaeda suspects, residents told Reuters. The gunbattle in the rural Yakla district of al-Bayda province killed a senior leader in Yemen's...

A boat carrying 31 people, including 28 Chinese tourists, has gone missing in the waters off Borneo island, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said Sunday. "The owner of the boat reported it missing on Saturday evening and we have begun a search and rescue mission," Awil Kamsari, a...

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday described Israel's recent decision to build a host of new Jewish-only housing units in the occupied West Bank as "illegal". "In accordance with international law, this decision by Israel is illegal," the ministry said in a statement. Israeli plans...