Thirty-one Somali refugees were killed off the coast of Yemen late Thursday when a helicopter attacked the boat they were travelling in, a local coast guard in the Houthi-controlled Hodeidah area said. Coast guard Mohamed al-Alay told Reuters the refugees, carrying official UNHCR documents,...

At least two Pakistani security personnel were killed in cross-border fire from Afghanistan Friday, the military said, when gunmen attacked a checkpoint near the frontier in the troubled northwest. The attack in Khyber tribal district was claimed by Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a faction of the...

The U.S. military says it carried out an airstrike in northern Syria against an Al-Qaeda target, but denies deliberately targeting a mosque where at least 42 people were killed according to an independent monitor. The U.S.-led coalition has been bombing extremist groups in war-torn Syria for...

The Israeli military said it shot down one of numerous anti-aircraft missiles launched on Friday at its air force which was operating in Syria. Rocket sirens had sounded in Israeli settlements in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank and two Reuters witnesses heard an explosion a few...