(Reuters) - Explosions shook the suburbs of the Yemeni port city of Aden on Monday as residents reported a foreign warship shelling Houthi positions on the outskirts of the city. Street fighting and heavy shelling has for several days torn through the city, the last bastion of...

Zaman al-Wasl has obtained a new package of mass torture photos for Syrian children, showed systematic killing and maimings by Bashar al-Assad's security services. The atrocious photos of mass torture had been taken between 2011 and mid 2013 in the well-known 601 military hospital in...

Ending the Kurdish insurgency in Turkey's impoverished southeast would unlock trade with  Iran , Iraq and eventually Syria, and kick-start a local economy long left behind by the rest of the country. Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan said last...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday  Israel  had released frozen tax revenue to the Authority but that he had ordered the funds to be returned because money had been deducted to cover debts to Israeli utility companies. Israel started...