A bomb next to the governor's office in the Yemeni city of Aden killed four people on Thursday, witnesses said, and the European Union urged parties to avoid hitting civilian infrastructure after Saudi-led air strikes on Hodeida port. No one claimed...

When Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called a ceasefire with Turkey two years ago, residents of the village of Sigire slaughtered a sheep to celebrate what they believed was the start of a new era of peace. Their homes and orchards in the mountains of northern Iraq had been on...

Four members of Hamas' armed wing were abducted in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday after the bus they were on was stopped by unidentified gunmen, sources close to the Palestinian group and Egyptian security officials said. Egypt accuses Hamas of supporting militant groups seeking to...

Syrian rebels on Thursday took two checkpoints in Bloudan resort, the next-door village of Zabadani, a move came to ease the 50-day brutal offensive on the mountainous city to capture it from rebels. Fighters of dominant Ahrar al-Sham movement and the al-Qaeda branch Nusra Front have taken...