At least three Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip, according to health officials, in the latest escalation less than 24 hours after a deadly covert Israeli operation in the besieged enclave. The air strikes on Monday followed a barrage of rocket fire...

Abu Mohammed thought he could finally go home after jihadists were expelled from his Damascus suburb, but he says Syrian authorities have blocked his return by wrongly classifying his dwelling as unfit to live in. In May, regime forces turfed the Islamic State group out of a chunk of...

Airstrikes by Turkish warplanes have "neutralized" 15 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters in northern Iraq, the military said on Twitter Saturday, destroying hideouts and armories belonging to the group. The Turkish army uses the phrase to neutralize when it has killed, captured or...

Pro-government forces fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have taken the main hospital in the strategic Red Sea port city of Hodeida, government military officials said Saturday. The May 22 Hospital lies in the east of the rebel-held city, a key aid conduit that is the target of...