The British Museum said Thursday it is returning to Iraq a collection of 5,000-year-old looted antiquities seized from a London dealer shortly after the US-led invasion in 2003. The eight objects were confiscated by police in May that year after the dealer failed to produce proof of...

Fragments from a missile launched into Saudi Arabia from Yemen by Houthi forces killed one civilian and wounded 11, Saudi state media said on Thursday. The Houthis, an Iran-allied group that controls much of Yemen including the capital Sanaa, said it fired a missile at the Jizan...

Yemen's Houthi militia said via its al-Masirah TV on Wednesday that it fired a missile at the Jizan Industrial City in southern Saudi Arabia. Saudi state news channel al-Ekhbariya reported that the kingdom's air defense forces intercepted the missile. There were no immediate reports of damage...

The Israeli military sounded air defense sirens near the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in what it later said was a mistake. "This was a false alarm," the military said on Twitter. Israel uses sirens to warn of rocket or mortar launches by militants in the besieged Palestinian enclave,...