With global attention on Yemen focused on a fragile truce in its main port of Hodeidah, fighting between rival forces in the country’s four-year war has surged elsewhere. Escalating hostilities in the southwestern al-Dhalea area have disrupted the main south-to-north goods route,...

Rockets from Gaza killed three people in an Israeli city while five Palestinian militants died on Sunday in surging cross-border fighting that included a return by Israel to singling out enemy commanders for attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the military to...

Russian air strikes on an underground hospital in the jihadist-held Syrian province of Idlib on Sunday forced the closure of the facility, a medical organisation and war monitor said. The hospital on the outskirts of Hass, in the south of Idlib province, was hit by air strikes, in an attack...

Israeli airstrikes killed four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, including a baby and her pregnant mother, as militants fired over 200 rockets at Israel in a major escalation of violence. The health ministry in Gaza said in a statement that Falestine Abu Arar, 37, had died...