Islamic State posted photographs online which it said were taken in the central Syrian city of Palmyra and appeared to show its ancient ruins unharmed since the hardline group seized it from government forces. Reuters was not able to independently confirm the authenticity of the photographs...

Two Saudi border guards have been killed and five others wounded by shellfire on the frontier with Yemen, official media reported. The deaths occurred when "military missiles from Yemen" struck their position at Zahran South in the Asir border region Wednesday, Riyadh's interior ministry...

The leader of al Qaeda's Syria wing said his group was focused on capturing Damascus and warned members of the country's minority Alawite sect to renounce President Bashar al-Assad and change their beliefs in order to be safe. The Nusra Front has made gains in northwestern Syria alongside...

Saudi-led airstrikes killed at least 80 people near Yemen's border with Saudi Arabia and in the capital Sanaa Wednesday, residents said, the deadliest day of bombing in over two months of war in Yemen. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized Sanaa last September and then thrust into central and...