At least two Yemeni soldiers and a militant were killed in a clash when militants tried to attack a military compound in southern Yemen on Saturday, the Defence Ministry said on its website. The September 26 website said al Qaeda militants approached the compound in Lawdar town...

  Al-Qaeda militants shot dead a man in southeastern Yemen on Thursday for allegedly giving the United States information used to carry out drone strikes against militants, witnesses and the SITE monitoring service said. Residents said the man was found shot dead on a...

A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew went missing over the South China Sea on Saturday, presumed crashed, as ships and planes from countries closest to its flight path scoured a large search area for any wreckage. Vietnamese state media, quoting a senior...

An al-Qaeda breakaway group says it faces a war with rival Islamic factions who want to destroy it, describing Syria's al-Qaeda-linked branch as the "front of betrayal and treason". The statement by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Friday came a week after the leader...