The first shipment of chemical weapons material has left Syria, according to the UN. The joint mission overseeing the disarmament, the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said on Tuesday that the materials had been moved from two sites to the port of...

  A Yemeni intelligence officer was seriously wounded when his car exploded on Tuesday in the main southern city of Aden, a security official told AFP. The attack is the second in a week against an intelligence officer in Aden after suspected al-Qaeda gunmen killed...

  Infighting between Syrian rebels threatened a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, a source said, forcing doctors to hide patients as clashes flared between Islamists and members of the Free Syrian Army. "Doctors are working neutrally, treating both...

A newly formed al-Mujahideen Army pledged to cleanse Syrian lands from any presence for the powerful al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), rebel commander told Zaman Alwasl. On Saturday, Syrian rebels battled ISIL fighters across the north-west of...