Suspected militants killed 20 members of Yemen's security forces in a dawn raid on a checkpoint on Monday, state news agency Saba said, in an attack officials said bore the hallmarks of the local branch of al Qaeda. Yemen is dogged by internal conflicts and chronic poverty...

The head of the organization overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile said he still hoped Damascus could meet a final deadline of June 30 but it might miss that target. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government agreed to destroy its chemical weapons...

Homesickness is a growing social challenge for thousands of displaced Syrians who had no choice but to flee their homes and find ways to express their feelings of loneliness and isolation. Farah who’s so proud of her new tattoo, wrote the word “Damascus” in Arabic on her...

An Egyptian court sentenced 529 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on charges including murder on Monday, a defence lawyer said, in a sharp escalation of a crackdown on the movement. The ruling was the biggest mass death sentence handed out in Egypt's modern...