Yemeni forces loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi made gains on Sunday in the southwestern city of Taiz after days of intense battles with Houthi fighters, a local official and residents said. The Haddi supporters, who have been backed by air strikes from a Saudi-led coalition...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is willing to eventually hold parliamentary and presidential elections and is ready to run himself for president, a Russian lawmaker told AFP from Damascus on Sunday. "He is ready to conduct elections with the participation of all political forces who want...

Gunmen shot dead an Islamist candidate in Egypt's parliamentary elections in North Sinai on Saturday, officials said, where jihadists are waging an insurgency against the government. Mostafa Abdel Rahman, a candidate for ultraconservative Salafist Al-Nur party which is seen as...

 Syria's Western-backed opposition on Saturday rejected a Russian offer to assist them against ISIS and dismissed Moscow's call for new elections. "Russia is bombing the Free Syrian Army and now it wants to cooperate with us, while it remains committed to Assad? We don't understand...