The International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen said Friday it was “extremely concerned” by the recent escalation of violence between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and government forces in in the oil-rich Marib province. “The ICRC urges all parties to the conflict to take every...

The 2014 killing in Algeria of Gourdel was claimed by a jihadist faction affiliated to the Islamic State group. Gourdel, 55, was abducted while exploring the rugged massif in the North African nation's Djurdjura National Park, a draw for hikers, but also long a sanctuary for jihadists....

An American journalist, living in northwestern Syria for nearly a decade, has been released, six months after he was captured by an al-Qaida-linked militant group, Syrian opposition media reported. Bilal Abdul Kareem, a native of Mount Vernon, N.Y., has been living in the rebel-held...

 A hardline organization running Syria's last major opposition bastion released on Wednesday an American self-described journalist accused of having ties to jihadists, a war monitor said. "The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) alliance has released Bilal Abdul Kareem, who has American...