(Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Amman has warned its citizens to avoid upscale shopping malls in the Jordanian capital, saying it had received what it called credible information that they could be targeted by militants. In a statement posted on its website late on Wednesday,...

(Reuters) - A coalition air strike near the Iraqi border town of al-Qaim killed at least 17 Islamic State militants overnight, a hospital source said. The source in al-Qaim hospital said a further 29 militants were wounded in the strike and some were taken across the border...

(Reuters) - Yemeni ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh is suspected of corruptly amassing as much as $60 billion, equivalent to Yemen's annual GDP, during his long rule, and colluding in a militia takeover last year, U.N.-appointed investigators have told the Security Council. The...

(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met on Wednesday with French parliamentarians, the first such meeting since France closed its embassy in 2012 and announced that Syria's leader had lost all legitimacy. The trip was not approved by the French parliament's foreign...