Spanish star Penelope Cruz said Sunday that Cubans were not free to talk frankly when she was making a new film about the communist island's biggest modern heroes. In "Wasp Network", the actress plays Olga Gonzalez, the wife of one of the intelligence officers known as the "Cuban Five" who...

Three separatist fighters were killed Friday in a suicide bombing in Aden, the first such attack since Yemeni government forces were expelled from the southern city on Aug. 10, security sources said. "A suicide bomber crashed his bomb-laden motorbike into a vehicle of the Southern...

Two explosions ripped through police checkpoints in Gaza City late Tuesday, killing three policemen and wounding two passerby, Hamas officials said. Hamas' interior ministry said two deaths occurred after the first explosion. Scarcely an hour later, a second blast occurred across town...

Hussam Alhallak and his wife kept thinking that the war in Syria would end, or that at least conditions would improve. But it persisted, with gunfire in the streets and bombings that drove the couple and their two young children into their basement for protection. They just wanted to move...