Saudi-led air strikes killed at least 16 people in Yemen on Friday, the country's dominant Houthi militia said, and the European Union and United States appealed for a pause in the war to enable aid deliveries to stricken civilians. An Arab coalition has been bombarding...

Syrian government forces carried out heavy air strikes on rebel positions in and around the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, aiming to repel a major Islamist-led offensive on areas controlled by President Bashar al-Assad. Thursday's attack, the most intense insurgent offensive in Aleppo in...

The French government rejected an aslyum request from Wikileaks' Julian Assange on Friday (Jul 3), saying he did not face "immediate danger". "France has received the letter from Mr. Assange. An in-depth review shows that in view of the legal and material elements of Mr Assange's situation,...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) An official diplomatic Saudi document published on WikiLeaks shows that Russia had practiced intimidation against Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he attended the conference of the Group of Friends of the Syrian People (“the Friends'...