Saudi Arabia said it foiled a Huthi drone attack on a southern airport Saturday just days before the new US administration is to stop designating the Yemeni rebels as a "terror" group. Saudi air defences "intercepted and destroyed a drone rigged with explosives which had been launched by...

“As long as the script remains not shot by a camera, the drawer becomes its coffin,” with these words, twin Syrian directors Mohamed and Ahmed Malas explained, turning their original idea of a feature film to the short film “Syrians in Wonderland”, due to production conditions. ...

A string of attacks on Tuesday in Afghanistan killed five government employees and four policemen, officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks. In the capital, Kabul, gunmen opened fire in the Bagh-e Daud neighborhood and killed four employees of the...

The Islamic State (IS) group has launched more than 100 attacks in north-eastern Syria over the last month alone and is terrorising many towns and villages at night. The violence is concentrated in the largely desert province of Deir al-Zour. Syrian researcher Ali (his real name,...