Saudi Arabia's air defense systems shot down a drone over the kingdom Friday, the Arab coalition in Yemen said, and it accused the country's Houthi rebels of launching the aircraft and targeting civilians. Some civilians suffered light injuries from debris when the drone was shot down,...

Torched tents, a rain of bullets, the thunderous whoosh of warplanes muffling the call to prayer: survivors say life inside the Islamic State group's dying "caliphate" was a bleak catalogue of despair. The crackle and thud of gunfire and shelling filled the air as plumes of thick black...

Palestinians deliberately drove a car into Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank on Monday and two of the attackers were shot dead after critically injuring an officer, the Israeli military said. Describing the incident as a car-ramming, the military said a third Palestinian in the...

Hundreds of students took part in new protests Sunday in the Algerian capital Algiers and other cities against a fifth term for ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who faced a midnight deadline to register for April elections. Chanting “Bouteflika go away”, more than 100 students...