Syrian regime army has freed a group of 19 women and children who were abducted by Daesh during a raid on the city of Sweida and neighbouring villages in July, Syrian state television reported on Thursday. The extremist group, which lost most of its territory in Syria last year, seized...

Ongoing violence in Yemen’s Al-Hudaydah province between the country’s Saudi-backed government and Houthi rebels “puts tens of thousands of already vulnerable people at risk”, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. “The violence [in Al-Hudaydah] is now in close...

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has pledged military support for Gulf Arab states if their security comes under threat, the state daily Al-Ahram reported Wednesday. "If the security of the Gulf is directly threatened, Egypt will mobilize its forces to support its brothers," Sisi...

Yemen’s rebels claim they halted advances of their adversaries, the U.S.-backed Arab coalition, at a key battlefield around a strategic Red Sea port city. Fighting continued around Hodeida Tuesday despite the statement from the Houthis that a three-pronged coalition assault had been stopped...