The small town of Abassan in the Gaza Strip is a tough place to infiltrate everyone knows everyone else and outsiders passing through quickly attract attention. So when strangers drove through town, suspicious Hamas security men stopped the van and questioned those inside.The answers didn’t...

The US Senate sent a fresh warning to President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia Wednesday by greenlighting a vote that could end US military support for Riyadh's war in Yemen. Anger at the human cost of the war, as well as outrage over the killing of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in...

Yemeni government sources confirmed Wednesday that a mass prisoner swap with rebels included Saudi soldiers fighting alongside state troops, as U.N.-brokered peace talks neared their end. Two government officials, including one in the delegation at the talks in Sweden, told AFP that the...

Turkey will start an operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria in a "few days," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday, a move that could further complicate relations with the United States. "We will start the operation to clear the east of the Euphrates from...