(Reuters) - A drone attack killed two suspected al Qaeda militants in the southern Yemeni province of Shabwa on Monday, local residents told Reuters, the latest in a series of strikes in the country gripped by political turmoil. The attack targeted militants traveling in a vehicle in...
Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Monday Turkey will explore for oil in the Qandil region of Iraq and that a move towards disarmament by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) should pave the way for this to happen. Yildiz told reporters Turkey owns...
(Reuters) - Islamist militant Mohammed Emwazi, identified as 'Jihadi John,' was a member of a network in contact with one of the men convicted of trying to bomb the British capital's underground railway in 2005, according to the government. The man dubbed by British media "Jihadi John"...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian internal opposition's main umbrella group National Coordination Body for Democratic Change (NCB) said on Saturday it will discuss and develop the document of basic principles for political settlement in Syria that proposed by the...
Iraq's army and Shi'ite militia have launched a long-awaited offensive against Islamic State in Salahuddin province, a stronghold of the radical Islamist fighters north of Baghdad, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday. The ultra-radical fighters control several...
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The Israeli military said it had mobilized some 13,000 soldiers for an unannounced drill on Sunday in the occupied West Bank, in the first such exercise in three years. A terse statement said army chief Gadi Eisenkot had called a "surprise exercise in Central Command" -- the...
(Reuters) - Islamic State released 19 Assyrian Christian captives in Syria on Sunday after processing them through a sharia court, a monitoring group which tracks the conflict said. More than 200 Assyrians remain in Islamic State hands, said the British-based Syrian...
(Reuters) - One of the main western-backed rebel groups announced on Sunday that it had dissolved itself and joined a larger Islamist alliance, weeks into a battle which saw it lose ground and men to more powerful al Qaeda insurgents. Hazzm is one of the last remnants of non-jihadist...
Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi said Sunday that capital Sanaa is "occupied" by the Shiite Houthi movement, describing the recent Houthi takeover of government as a "coup." Hadi's statements came during a speech he gave in the southern city of Aden, where he met tribal...
Palestinian movement Hamas on Sunday called on King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia to urge Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al -Sisi to halt what it described as "Egypt's hostile stances towards Hamas and the Gaza Strip." "We urge King Salman of Saudi...
(Anadolu Agensy)- The number Syrian refugees residing in the northern Jordanian province of Mafraq has exceeded 88 percent of the province's local population, the province's governor Qasim Muheidat said on Sunday. "The number of Syrians currently residing in ...
Hamas on Sunday said that Israel will continue to be the "real enemy of the people in the region," in light of an Egyptian court labeling Hamas a "terrorist organization" a day earlier. "No matter how strong the alliance between Israel and the...
(Reuters) - Egypt's main election committee said on Sunday it was working on a new timetable for a long-awaited parliamentary poll after a court ruled that an article in a law defining voting districts was unconstitutional. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi directed his government to amend...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is in Saudi Arabia for talks with the country's new king ahead of a conference aimed at shoring up financial support from wealthy Gulf states for Cairo's battered economy. A Saudi official says the two leaders will also be...
(Reuters) - Bahrain's public prosecutor has charged 17 people with forming a militant group and carrying out bombings that wounded security personnel, the state news agency said on Saturday. The group had set off bombs in the...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived Saturday night in Saudi Arabia, where he will visit holy Muslim cities and meet with Saudi King. Erdogan was welcomed in King Abdulaziz International airport in Jeddah city in the west by Governor Bin Macit and Turkish...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to begin a controversial visit to the U.S. on Sunday to express his rejection of a potential deal between world powers and Iran on the latter's nuclear program. Leaders of the centrist Zionist Union – a coalition of Israel's...
(AFP)- Romanian coastguard have intercepted a boat carrying 70 mainly Syrian and Iraqi migrants in the Black Sea, the interior ministry announced on Saturday. Seven children, including a five-month-old baby, and twenty women were among those on board the fishing boat which came from Turkey....
