Eleven Kurdish rebels and three of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards were killed in clashes near the Iraqi border, the Fars news agency reported Tuesday. "A group of 11 counter-revolutionaries linked to the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), who were attempting to infiltrate the...

An airstrike early Tuesday by a Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite rebels in Yemen's southern province of Taez killed 25 people - 15 fighters and 10 civilians, security officials said. The airstrike also wounded eight civilians, the officials said. Most of the victims were shoppers or...

Thousands of Syrian refugees stranded on Jordan's northeastern border with Syria are running out of food after a militant suicide attack prompted the army to shut the area, international relief workers and refugees said on Monday. Jordan, a staunch U.S. ally, declared the area a closed...

Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq (Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)- Well-informed sources revealed to Zaman al-Wasl that secret excavation operations in the historic city of Palmyra are underway, aiming to find claimed Jewish antiquities backed by Russia which has the upper hand in the city. The sources...