Yemen's armed Houthi movement said it fired missiles at "economic targets" in Saudi capital Riyadh on Wednesday, the group's official channel al-Masirah TV reported. "The missile force struck ... economic targets in Riyadh with a salvo of ballistic missiles," it said in a newsflash....

Four consecutive loud booms were heard in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh Wednesday, Reuters witnesses said. There was no immediate comment from Saudi authorities. Shortly after the noises were heard, state television Al-Ekhbariya said Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted...

Eight Iranians were among 15 foreign pro-regime fighters killed in a suspected Israeli strike in Syria on a weapons depot of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, a war monitor said Wednesday. The raid struck the area of Kisweh south of Damascus late Tuesday, the Britain-based Syrian...

The UK, France and Germany expressed ‘regret and concern’ Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal. In a joint statement, British Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel...

Iranian members of parliament on Wednesday protested the U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the landmark nuclear deal, Iranian state TV reported. During a morning session, lawmakers chanted “death to America” slogans and set the American flag and a copy of the...

Five people have been killed in a coal mine blast in central China's Hunan Province on Wednesday, the country’s official news agency reported. The colliery gas explosion happened at about 3.10 a.m. local time [1910GMT] at the coal pit of a private company in Shaodong County, Xinhua news...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday his recently confirmed top diplomat is enroute to North Korea to lay the groundwork for an historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. "Plans are being made. Relationships are building," Trump said at the White House as Secretary of State...

U.S. President Donald Trump is not fit for his job, the speaker of Iran's Parliament said on Wednesday, in Tehran's most personal criticism since Trump's decision to withdraw from a 2015 nuclear pact between Tehran and six world powers. Trump pulled the United States out of the deal on...

Israel's prime minister says security coordination with Russia must continue amid developments in Syria. Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Wednesday ahead of a trip to Moscow, where he is set to meet with President Vladimir Putin. He says "in light of what is currently happening in Syria, it is...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two people drowned in floods in the southern province of Daraa, Civil Defense said Tuesday. The rescuing group said two young men had drowned when they tried to swim in ponds filled by the floods water in the eastern countryside of Daraa. After five years...

Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have failed again to make progress on their Nile dispute as Ethiopia works to complete a massive upstream dam, an Egyptian official said Tuesday. Egypt fears the Renaissance Dam will cut into its share of the river, which provides virtually all the freshwater for the...

A Hamas official says that the group hopes to mobilize a large turnout for next week’s Gaza border protests, the highlight of a campaign to break a decade-old blockade of the territory. Ghazi Hamad said Tuesday that “there are many tools” to encourage participation, including making...

Syrian state media accused Israel of launching missiles at a target near Damascus Tuesday, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was quitting the Iranian nuclear deal, a move that prompted Israel to go on high alert. Within two hours of the White House announcement, Syrian state...

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday the U.S. will pull out of the landmark nuclear accord with Iran, dealing a profound blow to U.S. allies and potentially deepening the president's isolation on the world stage. "The United States does not make empty threats," he said in a televised...

The Israeli army said Tuesday it has asked authorities in the occupied Golan Heights to open and prepare missile shelters over "irregular activity by Iranian forces in Syria," across the demarcation line. "Following the identification of irregular activity of Iranian forces in Syria, the IDF...

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani will respond on state television Tuesday, shortly after U.S. counterpart Donald Trump's expected withdrawal from the nuclear deal, an Iranian official told AFP. "If Trump speaks, President Rouhani will respond tonight" on television, the official said, on...

U.S. President Donald Trump told French President Emmanuel Macron Tuesday that the United States was going to pull out of the international nuclear agreement with Iran, the New York Times reported, citing a person briefed on the conversation. The source said the United States is...

Israeli forces detained 22 Palestinians in overnight raids in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinians were arrested for “suspected involvement in terrorist activities and violent disorder directed at Israeli targets”, the army claimed in a Tuesday statement. “The suspects were...

Khalifa Haftar, commander of Libyan forces backed by the Tobruk-based parliament, has announced the launch of a military offensive to capture Libya's northeastern city of Derna. Derna was captured by the Shura Council of Mujahideen after the expulsion of Daesh from the city in 2014....

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman al-Safadi Tuesday warned of "dangerous repercussions" and a possible arms race in the Middle East unless a political solution was found to free the region of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. Safadi spoke in Germany before an...