Saudi-led air strikes killed at least 16 people in Yemen on Friday, the country's dominant Houthi militia said, and the European Union and United States appealed for a pause in the war to enable aid deliveries to stricken civilians. An Arab coalition has been bombarding...

An explosion at a mosque in Syria's Idlib province on Friday killed at least 25 members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, the British-based Observatory group said. The blast in the town of Ariha in northwestern Syria went off as members of the Nusra Front gathered at the mosque for iftar, the...

Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid told the BBC on Friday that police took too long to react to last week's jihadi attack that killed 38 people, mostly Britons. "The time of the reaction - this is the problem," Essid told the British broadcaster. Police had been "blocked everywhere," he added....

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) An official diplomatic Saudi document published on WikiLeaks shows that Russia had practiced intimidation against Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he attended the conference of the Group of Friends of the Syrian People (“the Friends'...