Sitting inside his bulldozer in embattled northwest Syria, civil defence worker Bassel al-Rihani quietly manoeuvres a giant shovel through red earth to dig a grave for whoever is killed next. The Idlib region of some three million people has suffered increased regime and Russian air strikes...

Attacks on two oil tankers on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman left one ablaze and both adrift, shipping firms said, driving oil prices up 4% over worries about Middle East supplies. The Front Altair was on fire in waters between Gulf Arab states and Iran after an explosion that a source...

Israeli aircraft attacked a Hamas target in Gaza Thursday after a Palestinian rocket strike, the Israeli military said, in the first serious cross-border flare-up since a surge in fighting last month. The latest hostilities followed Israel's closure of offshore waters to Gaza fisherman on...

A Yemeni rebel missile attack on an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia wounded 26 civilians on Wednesday, drawing promises of "stern action" from the Saudi-led coalition fighting the rebels. Yemen's Huthi rebels, who have faced persistent coalition bombing since March 2015 that has...