Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday  Israel  had released frozen tax revenue to the Authority but that he had ordered the funds to be returned because money had been deducted to cover debts to Israeli utility companies. Israel started...

Houthi fighters and allied army units clashed with local militias in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Sunday, and eyewitnesses said gun battles and heavy shelling ripped through a downtown district near the city's port. The Houthi forces have been battling to take Aden, a last...

(Reuters) - An Egyptian prosecutor has referred to a military court 187 alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters who are accused of killing police officers in a 2013 attack on a police station. Egypt  expanded the jurisdiction of military courts in October to permit them to try...

The Syrian government and some opposition figures will start a second round of talks in Moscow on Monday focusing on humanitarian issues, although a broader agreement is unlikely as Syria's main opposition group continues to boycott the talks. Participants say they do not expect any big...

(Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi militiamen, supported by army units, gained ground in the southern city of Aden on Sunday, pushing back loyalists of the Saudi-backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Residents took refuge in their homes and reported hearing sporadic gunfire and blasts of...

(Reuters) - At least four people were killed and more than 20 wounded by a suicide bomb attack on a security checkpoint east of the Libyan city of Misrata, a local official news agency reported on Sunday. Libya  is caught up in a conflict between two rival governments and armed forces...

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Saturday that Egypt would not give up its brothers in the Arab Gulf and that it would act to protect them if necessary. "Egypt will not give up its brothers in the Gulf," the Egyptian President said. "We will act to protect them if...

 Turkey’s highly-debated domestic security law that gives enhanced powers to Turkish police among a host of other measures has entered into force. The domestic security law was published Saturday in the official gazette after it was passed by the Turkish parliament’s general assembly on...

  (Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Critics rise by Syrian activists over the increase of corruption and bribery among the employees of Syrian regime's consulate in Istanbul. In theory, the consulate does the official documents for birth, marriage, death, power...

(Reuters) - Armed Yemeni tribesmen in pickup trucks entered the eastern port town of Mukalla on Saturday to drive out suspected al Qaeda fighters who took control 48 hours earlier, residents said. The fighters are part of a tribal alliance in the eastern Hadramawt province which...

 Islamic State has taken control of 90 percent of a Palestinian refugee camp on the Damascus outskirts where 18,000 civilians have suffered years of bombing, army siege and militia control, a monitoring group said on Saturday. The hardline group's offensive in Yarmouk gives...

U.S. President Barack Obama personally offered his condolences on Friday for the victims of a deadly attack on a Kenyan university that left dead scores of students.  "Words cannot adequately condemn the terrorist atrocities that took place at Garissa University College, where innocent men...

(Anadolu Agency)- Iran will live up to promises it made during the nuclear talks if the other side does the same,  Rouhani was quoted as saying on Friday by the country's official IRNA news agency.  A framework deal was reached between Iran and the P5+1 countries on...

Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh has reportedly fled the country aboard a Russian plane, Yemeni Foreign Minister Riyad Yassin said Saturday. "There was information that Saleh had departed Yemen aboard a Russian aircraft that had arrived in Sanaa airport to evacuate...

 Zaman al-Wasl newspaper publishes new 5 photos of mass torture for pro-Bashar al-Assad militants by Syrian intelligence services that illustrate apparent actions of serious international crimes, according to human rights advocates. Assad's fellow Alawite fighters have made the...

(Reuters) - On April 1, the city of Tikrit was liberated from the extremist group Islamic State. The Shi'ite-led central government and allied militias, after a month-long battle, had expelled the barbarous Sunni radicals. Then, some of the liberators took revenge. Near...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A confidential document issued by the Syrian regime Intelligence, branch 291, in 2014, showed that Syrian army had deliberately facilitated the cross of Islamic State fighters into the countryside of Salamiyeh city in Hama province where the...

Five people, including 2 children, have been killed in a missile attack on rebel-held neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, a monitoring group said Friday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 5 people, including 2 children, have been killed...

(Reuters) - Around 15,000 antiquities locked away in safes around the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib are at risk of being sold on the black market, the head of antiquities and museums Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters on Friday. The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and other insurgents...

(Anadolu Agency)- Turkish Coast Guard crews have rescued 376 illegal migrants in operations carried out in the Aegean Sea between March 30 and April 3, Turkish provincial office said in a statement Friday. Most of the migrants came from Syria. According to the Izmir...