Forces loyal to Yemen's exiled government clashed with Houthi fighters over a strategic town close to the border with Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in a sign a new front may be opening in the 19-month-old civil war. Officials from the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabu...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused France of deliberately luring Moscow into vetoing a United Nations resolution on Syria and suggested Paris was doing the bidding of the United States. Russia last week imposed its veto on a French-backed resolution condemning the violence...

France confirmed on Wednesday two of its soldiers had been injured in a drone attack carried out by Daesh in Iraq. Government spokesman Stephane Le Foll told reporters the soldiers were hurt earlier this month near the Iraqi city of Erbil. Speaking after a cabinet meeting, Le Foll said...

The population of the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip has now surpassed the two-million mark, the Interior Ministry in Gaza’s Hamas-run government has announced. In a statement, the ministry’s General Directorate for Civil Affairs said the strip’s total population had surpassed two...