A double suicide bombing killed at least 10 people on Thursday at a mosque run by Yemen's Houthi group in the capital Sanaa, where worshippers were performing Muslim Eid al-Adha prayers, medics and witnesses said. Islamic State's branch in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack at...

Syrian government forces used newly arrived Russian warplanes to bombard Islamic State fighters in Aleppo province in northern Syria, Reuters said on Thursday, in an attempt to break a siege on a nearby air base. Russia is bolstering its ally Damascus with military aid that U.S. officials...

Saudi Arabia's civil defense directorate says 717 people were killed in a crush of Muslim pilgrims near the holy city of Mecca. Thursday's disaster was the deadliest such incident on the annual hajj pilgrimage in more than two decades, and comes nearly two weeks after a crane collapsed in...

Hundreds of Syrians gather at dusk for a passenger ferry from Lebanon's northern port of Tripoli to Turkey, the next step on their long trek toward what they hope will be a better, safer life in western Europe. For more than four years, Lebanon has drawn refugees fleeing Syria but...