The Israeli military said it had mobilized some 13,000 soldiers for an unannounced drill on Sunday in the occupied West Bank, in the first such exercise in three years. A terse statement said army chief Gadi Eisenkot had called a "surprise exercise in Central Command" -- the...

(Reuters) - Islamic State released 19 Assyrian Christian captives in  Syria  on Sunday after processing them through a sharia court, a monitoring group which tracks the conflict said. More than 200 Assyrians remain in Islamic State hands, said the British-based Syrian...

(Reuters) - One of the main western-backed rebel groups announced on Sunday that it had dissolved itself and joined a larger Islamist alliance, weeks into a battle which saw it lose ground and men to more powerful al Qaeda insurgents. Hazzm is one of the last remnants of non-jihadist...

Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour  Hadi  said Sunday that capital Sanaa is "occupied" by the Shiite Houthi movement, describing the recent Houthi takeover of government as a "coup." Hadi's statements came during a speech he gave in the southern city of Aden, where he met tribal...