SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A jet-fighter from a Saudi-led coalition struck a military convoy belonging to Shiite rebels and their allies in southern Yemen on Wednesday, straining a humanitarian, five-day cease-fire that took hold the previous day. Meanwhile, a senior Iranian military official warned...

A top Burundian general on Wednesday announced the overthrow of President Pierre Nkurunziza, following weeks of violent protests against his bid to stand for a third term. The radio broadcast by General Godefroid Niyombare – who was sacked from his position as the central African nation’s...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has allocated 1 billion riyals ($265 million) for a Yemen relief center he has ordered to be set up in the kingdom, the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported Wednesday. The satellite channel said the money would be in addition to another 1 billion riyals the...

A three-year operation to smuggle official documents out of Syria has produced enough evidence to indict President Bashar al-Assad and 24 senior members of his regime, according to the findings of an international investigative commission. The prosecution cases against the Syrian leaders focus...

Louay Hussein, leader of Building the Syrian State party, said in leaked tape obtained by Zaman al-Wasl that Syrian revolution is the revolution of varmints and punks, a shocking statement comes a day after he refused to hold a press conference beside the revolution's flag. Hussein,...

While hosting the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Washington and at Camp David this week, President Barack Obama faces a hard sell: assuring the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia that the United States has an Iran policy that encompasses their...

Fatah Army in Idlib on Tuesday has taken control of a strategic military post near Ariha town, leaving heavy losses among Syrian forces, rebel news feeds said. The alliance of Islamist groups, including the Nusra Front, has seized control of al-Fanar military post and surrounding...

DAMASCUS (AFP) - At least four people were killed and 17 wounded in a double bomb blast in Syria's central city of Homs on Tuesday, the provincial governor told AFP. Governor Talal Barazi said the blasts were caused by motorbikes rigged with explosives in the Wadi Dahab and Al-Zahra...

At least 37 people were killed Tuesday in a regime barrel bomb attack on a mini-bus stand in a rebel-held part of Syria's Aleppo city, activists said. "Helicopters committed a massacre, dropping a barrel bomb on a mini-bus station in the Fardous district of Aleppo, killing 20 civilians, among...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin with an eye on easing badly strained relations over conflicts in Ukraine and Syria. Kerry was to lay a wreath at a World War II memorial in the Black Sea resort city before meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey...

 Army of Fatah in Qalamoun declared in a detailed statement war on the Islamic Sate group in the mountainous Qalamoun region, saying the abuses of the ultra- hardline group can not be tolerated. The newly formed group of number of Islamist factions that fight Syrian regime and Iran...

Iran's nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, who has played a major role in recent talks with world powers, has had emergency surgery for a perforated bowel, state media reported Tuesday. Doctors discovered the tear in the wall of his gut on Monday evening and operated on it successfully, state...

An official with the International Organization for Migration says at least four people were killed and a number of buildings collapsed in the isolated town of Chautara after Nepal's latest strong earthquake. IOM spokesman Paul Dillon says a search and rescue team has already begun...

The long-planned spring battle of Qalamoun - between Hezbollah and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces on one hand, and Syrian rebels on the other hand - started last weekend. Though the Assad regime and Hezbollah are striving for a victory to regain momentum, it will be a lengthy and...

Egyptian newspapers are publishing what would have been unthinkable when then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi removed the Muslim Brotherhood from power in 2013: suggestions that he is fallible. It is a sign that a man who enjoys cult-like support may be starting to lose some...

The Saudi king's absence from a regional summit to be hosted by President Barack Obama shows how Gulf states, displeased by what they see as U.S. indifference to Iranian meddling in the Arab world, may hesitate to bless any nuclear deal with Tehran. Analysts and diplomats in...

More than 36,000 newborn Syrian babies in Lebanon are stateless, with no identification documents, the UN refugee agency has told Al Jazeera. The registration data of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees indicates that, as of the end of March 2015, nearly 51,000...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Abo Nidal, former officer in Syrian Air forces, said Syrian regime has used all sort of military airplanes it owns, except Meg 29, because this kind of planes is only used for air battles.  The defected colonel said all the airplanes seized or destroyed...

A Turkish dry cargo ship was shelled from the Libyan coast as it approached the port of Tobruk and then attacked from the air as it tried to leave the area on Sunday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The third officer on the Cook Islands-chartered Tuna-1 vessel died and other...

Yemen's Houthi militia and Saudi forces traded heavy artillery and rocket fire in border areas on Monday, residents said, a day before a five-day humanitarian truce was due to take effect. The Houthis said they fired Katyusha rockets and mortars on the Saudi cities of Jizan and Najran on...