More than 20 air strikes by Arab forces hit targets controlled by Houthi rebels across Yemen late on Sunday, residents said. An Arab military coalition has been bombing the Houthis for three months to restore the country's exiled government and fend off what they see as Iranian...

  A Taliban suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday, shattering windows and forcing lawmakers to flee, as a second district in two days fell to the Islamist group in the north. Violence has spiraled in Afghanistan since the departure of most...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Leaked Saudi Arabia's cables revealed that Mostafa Bakri, prominent Egyptian Journalist, had requested funds from Saudi Arabia to establish a news channel, saying it will face the expanding of the Shiite sect. According to the WikiLeaks document, the Saudi Minister...

Disruption of fuel supplies due to fighting between rebel groups in northern Syria is threatening the closure of hospitals and paralyzing the work of ambulances and rescue services, an international medical charity said Sunday. ISIS militants have closed a checkpoint under their control in the...

A prominent Al-Jazeera journalist will remain in German custody for a second night, prosecutors said Sunday, adding they have not yet decided whether to extradite him to Egypt or set him free. As dozens of supporters protested Sunday in front of the Berlin court building where Ahmed Mansour was...

Syrian regime airstrikes killed 10 people and wounded dozens in northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, activists and local reporter said. The barrel bomb attack on al-Aseela neighborhood in rebel-held Aleppo killed 8 civilians and turned their buildings to rubble, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said  ...

There are more than just two security officers accused of torturing inmates in Roumieh Prison, Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk said Sunday, after online footage showed two ISF officers beating prisoners with a plastic rod. “These two officers are not alone,” Machnouk said in a news conference...

  A senior commander in Ahrar al-Sham movement was killed on Sunday by ISIS-linked group Shouhada'a al-Yarmouk in Daraa countryside, well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Abu Hamza al-Hariri, Ahrar al-Sham's Emir in Daraa, was assassinated by militant belongs to Shouhada'a...

The official Syrian news agency and activists are reporting a huge explosion in the northeastern town of Qamishli near the Turkish border. The agency says Sunday's attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who targeted a hotel in the predominantly Kurdish town, but the Britain-based Syrian...

Dozens of fighters from ISIS were killed in Libya Saturday as militiamen sought to dislodge them from a neighbourhood in the eastern city of Derna, Libyan news agency Lana reported. For more than a week now, fighters belonging to a group known as the Mujahedeen Council of Derna have been...

 Israeli police say a Palestinian man has stabbed an Israeli paramilitary police officer, critically injuring him. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says the police officer was stabbed in the neck Sunday outside the Old City of Jerusalem and was taken to hospital. The officer managed to...

Saudi-led airstrikes killed 15 people and wounded dozens across Yemen late on Saturday, the Houthi-run Saba news agency reported. The dead included five women and two children in attacks on Saada and Marib provinces, the agency said. A Saudi-led Arab coalition has been bombarding...

South Korea reported three new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome on Sunday, bringing the total to 169 in the largest outbreak outside Saudi Arabia, but Thailand said it had no new infections. South Korea's Health Ministry late on Saturday reported the 25th fatality, a patient who had...

Hollywood actress and director Angelina Jolie on Saturday described a spiraling global refugee crisis as an "explosion of human suffering" whose causes the international community refuses to confront. Jolie, who serves as a United Nations special envoy for refugees, was speaking at a...

 Hermon Army fighters on Saturday have stormed Syrian army base in Quneitra countryside, destroying 3 tanks, activists said. The newly-formed rebel group that operates on the border of Golan Occupied Heights has attacked Liwa Tisein, or the 90th Brigade,in Kawm al-Wesah village, destroying...

Ahmed Mansour, a senior Al Jazeera Arabic TV journalist, was detained at a Berlin airport at the request of the Egyptian authorities. Mansour was arrested at Berlin's Tegel airport at 1320 GMT on Saturday as he tried to board a Qatar Airways flight from Berlin to Doha. In a phone call, Mansour...

ISIS said it was behind a car bomb that exploded in Yemen's capital Sanaa Saturday near the Qiba al-Mahdi mosque, killing two people and wounding six others, witnesses and a security source told Reuters. The group said in a statement published on militant Twitter accounts that the attack was...

 Saudi Arabia Saturday urged its citizens not to distribute "documents that might be faked" in an apparent response to WikiLeaks' publication Friday of more than 60,000 documents it says are secret Saudi diplomatic communications. The statement, made by the Foreign Ministry on its Twitter...

A son of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden asked the United States for a death certificate after US Navy SEALS killed him, said a letter released by WikiLeaks Thursday. The letter, stating it is from the U.S. embassy in Riyadh, is among about 70,000 documents dubbed "The Saudi Cables" the...

 At the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, diplomats talked about airing the grievances of disenchanted local youth using Facebook and Twitter. At the embassy in Khartoum, they reported anxiously on Iran's military aid to Sudan. Meanwhile the Saudi mission in Geneva was stuck dealing with a...