SANAA, Yemen: A Yemeni minister accused the United Arab Emirates of trying to fragment his country by creating separate "regional and tribal armies" in the south and called upon the government to take action. Yemen has been engulfed in a civil war since 2015, with a Saudi-led coalition...

Syrian forces launched a ground offensive Monday on a rebel-held eastern Damascus suburb despite a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria, as the U.N. chief denounced the violence in the embattled region, describing it as "hell on Earth." The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- "Destroy the children of Ghouta; they are the children of terrorists, kill the women; they are the wives and mothers of the terrorists." This was a call by a pro-regime loyalist, Lama Dayoub, on her Facebook page to the regime army, Iranian militias and the Russian friends, and...

At least two people were killed and dozens more injured on Sunday when security forces in Democratic Republic of Congo cracked down on church-led demonstrations against President Joseph Kabila, the United Nations said. Catholic and evangelical churchgoers across Congo had meant to take...