Bahrain has named a Bahraini citizen who lives in Iran as a main suspect in what it called planned "terrorist acts" and said he and his collaborators had received training and other help from Tehran. Bahrain, home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet, said last Monday it had foiled an attempt to...

Violence in Aleppo and Idlib comes as protesters rally against al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Fighters from several Syrian rebel factions have engaged in fierce battles against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in what activists say is...

Amid the chaos of  Syria ’s civil war,  Hezbollah has been moving long-range missiles to  Lebanon  from bases where it had stored them inside Syria, including long-range Scud D missiles that can strike deep into  Israel , according to an Israeli national...

Violence in Iraq surged in 2013 to its worst level in five years, fuelled by widespread discontent among the Sunni Arab minority and Syria's civil war, figures released Wednesday showed. Bombs tore through markets, cafes, football fields and mosques, militants assaulted prisons, police...