Unknown attackers blew up an abandoned Catholic Church in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Wednesday, residents said, days after Islamic State militants assassinated the city's governor. Yemen's embattled government is based in Aden but has struggled to impose its authority there since...

  (Council On Foreign Relations- Philip H. Gordon) Of all the factors currently tearing the Middle East apart, none is more consequential than the war in Syria.  The war has left some 250,000 Syrians dead, seven million internally displaced, and three million forced to flee to...

More than 9,000 people have been killed since the conflict in Ukraine began, the United Nations said Wednesday, warning that even though fighting had abated, millions were in precarious situations. The UN human rights office hailed "a sharp de-escalation of hostilities" in the conflict zones in...

(Zaman Al Wasl- AFP)-  Syrian rebel forces on Wednesday began evacuating the last district they hold in the central city of Homs under a deal with the regime, sending out dozens of civilians, a monitor said. "The first bus of civilians has left Waer," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the...