(AFP)- Saudi-led warplanes hit anti-government forces in south Yemen Monday, killing at least 12 Shiite Huthi insurgents and allied forces as fighting continued across several provinces, military and local sources said. Coalition aircraft pounded five schools converted by rebels into...

Hundreds of Syrian rebels are approaching the start of U.S. training to battle Islamic State, without knowing whether or how Washington would come to their aid on the battlefield and as other rebel leaders say the proxy army could spark opposition infighting. The U.S. plan to train and...

 A coalition of Islamist rebels said they seized a Syrian army base in northwestern Idlib province at dawn on Monday after a suicide bomber from al Qaeda's Nusra Front drove a truck packed with explosives inside and set it off. Syrian state media said the army had inflicted heavy...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military said Sunday it launched an airstrike on its border with Syria after spotting militants carrying a bomb in the Israeli-held Golan Heights. The military said it carried out the strike after troops saw "a group of armed terrorists" approach the...