Reverberations from President Donald Trump's travel ban and other stances are threatening to undermine future U.S.-Iraqi security cooperation, rattling a key alliance that over the past two years has slowly beaten back the Islamic State group. Iraq's prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, has...

A Saudi-led coalition has declared Yemen's Hudaida city a military zone, urging civilians in the Houthi-held Red Sea port to stay in their homes, days after the United Nations warned that airstrikes could trap civilians and hamper aid efforts. The military coalition of mainly Gulf Arab...

(The Guardian )- American airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Helmand province may have killed at least 18 civilians, mostly women and children, according to the UN and local sources. The airstrikes took place late on Thursday in Sangin district, which has been highly contested for most of the...

Tension between Iraq's Shiite leaders mounted Sunday as the toll from protests in central Baghdad on Saturday increased to six killed, five demonstrators loyal to the fiery cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and one policeman. At least 174 other protesters were injured in clashes that pitted police and...