Shells fired by Yemen's dominant Houthi group killed 18 people near the southern port city of Aden early on Wednesday, local officials and witnesses said, while the United Nations warned a dengue fever outbreak in Aden was rapidly gaining pace. Yemen, which has long struggled with poverty and...

Islamic State militants launched a wide-scale coordinated assault on several military checkpoints in Egypt's North Sinai on Wednesday in which 50 people were killed, security sources said, the largest attack yet in the insurgency-hit province. Egyptian army F-16 jets and Apache helicopters...

A Syrian Kurdish militia said on Wednesday it had recovered full control of the border town of Tel Abyad after Islamic State fighters raided its outskirts the day before in preparation for a larger assault, Reuters reported. Backed by U.S.-led air strikes, the Kurdish YPG militia and smaller...

At least 20 Egyptian security forces were killed when suspected militants attacked checkpoints in North Sinai on Wednesday, security sources said, in one of the biggest coordinated assaults in the province. Five checkpoints were attacked by about 70 militants, an army spokesman said, adding...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A new diplomatic document appeared in WikiLeaks showed that Saudi supported the Syrian file in the Arab Summit in Baghdad 2012. A letter was sent from the Minster of Foreign Affairs in Saudi Arabia, Saud Al Faisal, to the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Nabil...

An ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up near a base for Syrian air force intelligence in al-Furqlus town in the eastern countryside of Homs, leaving 20 soldiers killed, supporters of the hardline group said on social media Tuesday. ISIS twitter feeds posted a photos for the bomber, Abu al-Abbas...

 Syrian air force on Tuesday killed at least 15 civilians, including a child, in raids on al-Saleheen neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. Barrel bomb attacks have also targeted al-Ansari neighborhood, leaving dozens wounded. the aerial campaign...

Islamic State fighters stormed the Syrian town of Tel Abyad on the Turkish border on Tuesday and captured a neighborhood from the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, but suffered setbacks in the northeastern city of Hasaka, a monitor and the army said. Islamic State has launched simultaneous attacks...

 The gunman who killed 38 tourists in Tunisia received weapons training from jihadis in Libya, a top official said Tuesday, as the president admitted security services were unprepared for the attack. On Friday, a student identified as 23-year-old Seifeddine Rezgui pulled a Kalashnikov...

An Egyptian security official says a bomb blast near a police station killed three people, a day after the assassination of the country's prosecutor general. The blast took place Tuesday in the Six of October district. The official says it is not immediately clear whether the three killed were...

Greece has offered to suspend its planned referendum on its bailout terms if negotiations with the EU are reopened, Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said Tuesday, the Times of Malta reported. The daily's website cited Prime Minister Joseph Muscat as telling parliament that the Greek offer...

U.S. President Barack Obama warned Tuesday he will "walk away" from a bad nuclear deal with Iran, as Tehran and six world powers gave themselves until July 7 to reach an agreement. Insisting there must be a "strong, rigorous verification mechanism" for monitoring Iran's nuclear sites, Obama...

A top aide of Tayyip Erdogan rejected accusations the Turkish president was ready to pitch the country's armed forces into war in Syria and said any security measures it took would be intended only to secure its southern frontier. Turkey's main opposition leader said the "drums of war" were...

A senior Israeli defense official said President Bashar al-Assad controlled just a fifth of Syria and may end up in charge of a rump state dominated by his minority Alawite sect. Israel and its neighbor Syria are long-term enemies, but the remarks by Amos Gilad, strategic adviser to...

Syrian opposition's head Khaled Khoja to visit Geneva on Wednesday accompanied with 6 National Coalition members, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The unexpressed visit came over the third round of Syria's Peace Talks that planned to take place in the Switzerland's capital. The UN-Arab League...

A car bomb claimed by Islamic State exploded in the Yemeni capital Sanaa overnight, medics said, wounding at least 28 people gathered to mourn another attack earlier this month. In a new sign that three months of war in Yemen was ratcheting up, the country's military spokesman said its forces...

The hardline Islamic State group has beheaded two women in Syria, the first time it has decapitated female civilians, the founder of a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday. The beheadings took place in the eastern Deir al-Zor province this week said Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A Saudi document sent from the Saudi Embassy in Tehran to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, explained that Turkish government had been subject to Iranian media attacks and was accused of hypocrisy and implementing the policies of America and Israel. The report...

Four Israelis were wounded, one seriously, when their car came under fire on a road near the West Bank settlement of Shvut Rachel Monday, Israeli security sources said. The injured, all of them men in their 20s, were taken to Israeli hospitals. One of them was in a serious condition, the...

Two Syrian men purportedly kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in east Lebanon were released several hours later, the National News Agency said Tuesday. The report said Mohammad Zakaria Yehya, 28, and Ismail Fahed Noureddine, 31, were released shortly before midnight. NNA had said the two men...