SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- The leader of the Shiite rebels who control Yemen's capital and seized the presidential palace on Tuesday warned of a further escalation if President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi stands in the way of political reform. In a lengthy speech aired by the...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemen's powerful Shiite Houthi rebels shelled the residence of the country's embattled president Tuesday and simultaneously swept into the presidential palace in the capital, Sanaa, as a top military commander warned that a full-fledged "coup" was...

By Hussein Ibish (The National)- United States’s strategy in the campaign against ISIL, particularly in Syria, is reaching a crisis point. On the ground, the limitations of the current approach are becoming clear. And politically in Washington, the issue appears to be...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Saturday that his country will provide humanitarian and military aid to Middle East countries to the tune of $2.5 billion in the coming phase. "This aid will be directed to improve infrastructure and military fields," Abe remarked...