At least 10 people were killed in heavy clashes in Yemen on Friday despite a five-day humanitarian truce, while aid distribution to the millions deprived of food, fuel and medicine by weeks of fighting and air strikes continued. Saudi Arabia, leading a coalition of Arab states...

The militant group that said it was behind Wednesday's massacre of 45 commuters in Karachi is a dangerous outfit with ties to Pakistan's Taliban, but intelligence sources voiced doubts about claims it had received financial support from Islamic State. Jundullah, a Sunni Muslim...

Bosnia has indicted 12 people for forming a terrorist group and traveling to Syria and Iraq to fight for the Islamic State, the state prosecutor's office said on Friday. The indictment follows raids and arrests across the Balkan country over the past eight months, during which...

Islamic State militants raised their black flag over the local government compound in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Friday and claimed victory through mosque loudspeakers after overrunning most of the western provincial capital. The insurgents attacked Ramadi overnight using six...

The TV channel of Iraq's former ruling Baath party on Friday released an audio recording purportedly of the elusive Saddam Hussein deputy some officials said had been killed last month. Several officials and leaders of Shiite militia groups had claimed to have killed Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri more...

Regime airstrikes on three adjacent rebel-held villages in northern Syria killed at least 39 civilians, 17 of them children, an activist group said Thursday. Eight siblings were among the dead from the Wednesday strikes in southern Aleppo province, around 15 kilometers (10 miles) from the main...

(The Daily Star)- Lebanese political figures expressed outrage for a second day Thursday at what they felt was a soft sentence handed down to former Information Minister Michel Samaha over transporting explosives, with MP Walid Jumblatt saying it "legalizes terrorism." The military court...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was preparing on Thursday to present his proposed government for the approval of parliament, where his coalition commands a razor-thin majority. Netanyahu's new administration marks a shift to the right by giving increased prominence to Naftali...

Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces fired warning shots at a Singapore-flagged commercial ship in the Gulf on Thursday, before vessels from the United Arab Emirates came to the ship's aid, US officials said. The Iranian patrol craft fired across the bow of the Alpine Eternity in international...

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists battled Syrian troops near ancient Palmyra May 14, threatening the UNESCO world heritage site with destruction like that which it has already wreaked in Iraq, a monitoring group said. After a lightning advance across the desert in which...

President Barack Obama will seek to convince Gulf allies including Saudi Arabia on Thursday that the United States is committed to their security despite deep concern among Arab leaders about U.S. efforts to broker a nuclear deal with Iran. During a rare, high-profile summit at...

Syrian armed groups opposed to President Bashar al-Assad have rejected an invitation to U.N. consultations in Geneva, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday, dealing an blow to hopes of reviving talks to end the conflict. The letter from 30 opposition armed groups...

Idlib's Islamist rebels on Wednesday have thwarted the attacks of Syrian regime forces to take back al-Fanar and al-Jameyyat checkpoints, rebel sources say as fierce clashes still underway east of Ariha town and near al-Mastouma camp. Fatah Army in Idlib on Tuesday took control of a strategic...

(NOW)- Syrian rebels have attacked Hezbollah on a new front in the ongoing Qalamoun battles amid advances by the Shiite party as it gears up for a “decisive” battle to seize a strategic mountain redoubt. “Fierce clashes raged between Hezbollah supported by regime troops and...

Syrian regime on Wednesday mourned the general commander of special forces, the powerful Syrian army unit, who died of his wounds after leading the battles against Islamist rebels in the town of Jisr al-Shughour northern Syria. M. General Muhi al-Din Mansour, who led Syrian elite forces,...

The Iraqi government said Wednesday that several top jihadist leaders were targeted in a coalition air strike in the northwestern area of Tal Afar. "Based on accurate intelligence, an air strike was carried out by the international coalition targeting the number two in the Daesh...

A senior Israeli military intelligence official warned Wednesday of a heightened threat of conflict on Israel's borders in the next two years as a result of "escalation" in the region. In a briefing to foreign journalists at the defence ministry in Tel Aviv, the official also...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has seized more territory in the central province of Homs amid intense clashes with government forces, Syrian activists say. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday's fighting killed at least 28 government troops and...

(Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Fajr and Ahmed are two refugee children in Jordan who suffer a critical health condition as they do not do have any support or medical treatment since they fled with their families the war-torn city of Homs two years ago. Ahmed, a...

Gunmen on motorcycles boarded a bus and opened fire on commuters in Pakistan's volatile southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, killing at least 43, police said, and militants affiliated with Islamic State claimed responsibility. The pink bus was pockmarked with bullet holes and...