China is not militarizing the South China Sea, Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday, although he acknowledged that defense equipment on islands in the disputed waterway had been placed there to maintain "freedom of navigation". China has drawn international criticism for large-scale building in...

 Israel is drawing up contingency plans to evacuate up to a quarter-million civilians from border communities to protect them from attacks from Hamas, Hezbollah or other groups. The mass evacuations would be the biggest in Israel’s history, part of a bigger plan where the army works with...

(Daily Mail)- The assasination of Hezbollah's top military commander in Syria last year was by rivals within the Shiite militant group, Israel's military chief has declared. Gadi Eisenkot told an academic conference on Tuesday that the death of Mustafa Badreddine last May illustrated 'the...

Two senior Yemen rebels survived a Saudi-led coalition air raid on their convoy in the southwestern province of Taiz Saturday that killed eight of their guards, military and medical sources said. The attacked targeted a convoy carrying Abdu Al-Jundi, who was appointed as the governor of Taiz...