Yemeni security officials say forces loyal to the country's internationally recognized government have taken full control of a key southern city after overnight clashes with separatists. The officials say the fighting over Etq, the capital of oil-rich Shabwa province, lasted until...

Syrian regime troops Friday reclaimed a cluster of towns they had lost early in the eight-year-old war, pressing their offensive in the northwest, the country's last big rebel stronghold. The army drove out the last rebel fighters from the Hama countryside – the latest in a string of...

The UN issued a warning that 3 million people in northwestern Syria are at dire risk if the regime continues its offensive against civilians and the civilian infrastructure. ''The Secretary-General said that he is deeply troubled by the continued escalation in north-west Syria and the...

Continuing its violations of last year's cease-fire agreement, the Syrian regime on Thursday attacked a Turkish military observation post in northwestern Syria with harassment fire, officials told Anadolu Agency.  Regime jets fired heavy machine guns near observation point no. 8 in...