TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Monday, pausing for breath after posting gains of as much as 20 percent in the third quarter, after a survey pointed to a slight increase in OPEC production in September. U.S. crude was down 13 cents, or 0.3 percent, at $51.54 a barrel at 0346 GMT....

(Reuters) - Yemen’s Houthi forces shot down a U.S. surveillance drone in the capital Sanaa on Sunday, the Houthi-controlled state news agency SABA reported. The Houthi movement and its ally former president Ali Abdullah Saleh control much of northern Yemen, including Sanaa, and are...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Sunday that Islamic State fighters had seized control of the town of al-Qaryatayn in Homs province, part of a wider counterattack by the jihadists as they resist a fierce offensive in eastern Syria. There was no comment from the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 people, including newborn, have been killed in regime artillery shelling on Talbiseh town in central Homs province, local reporter said on Saturday. The rebel-held northern countryside of Homs has endured to heavy aerial and ground bombardment despite the...