(Reuters)- Bahraini police Monday fired tear gas and birdshot at protesters demonstrating against the execution of a top Shiite cleric in neighboring Saudi Arabia, witnesses said. The standoff in the village of al-Daih, west of the capital Manama, was the latest of several protests...

Iran denied Thursday that its Revolutionary Guards launched rockets near the U.S. aircraft-carrier Harry S. Truman and other warships as they were entering the Gulf Saturday, rejecting a U.S. report as "psychological warfare". "The naval forces of the Guards have not had any...

Iraq's foreign minister said on Wednesday it could resort to military means if forced to defend itself from what it says is an intrusion of Turkish forces into part of its north. Turkey said it had deployed a force protection unit earlier this month to the area due to...

Iranian Revolutionary Guards launched rockets near the U.S. aircraft-carrier Harry S. Truman and other warships as they were entering the Gulf on Saturday, giving only brief notice in a "highly provocative" act, a U.S. military spokesman said on Tuesday. NBC News, citing unnamed U.S. military...