Middle East
With surge, Yemen rebels appear to be more than mere ‘Iranian proxies’
Yemeni rebels seized President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s palace in his former southern stronghold Aden Thursday, dealing a symbolic blow to the self-exiled...
Yemen rebels take central Aden district in blow to Saudi campaign
Yemen’s Houthi fighters and their allies seized a central Aden district on Thursday, residents said, striking a heavy blow to the Saudi-led coalition...
UN report: More than 25,000 foreigners fight with terrorists
The number of fighters leaving home to join al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in Iraq, Syria and other countries has spiked to more than 25,000 from...
Battle for the Middle East: IS loses Tikrit, seizes vast Damascus refugee camp
Fighters proclaiming allegiance to Islamic State seized most of a large swath of a Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus on Wednesday,...
3 killed as Turkey hostage drama ends in deadly shoot-out
A senior Turkish prosecutor and his two hostage-takers were killed when security forces launched an operation to free the official in a bloody end to a...
Yemen capital rocked overnight by ‘heaviest’ yet Arab raids
Explosions lit up the skies over Yemen’s capital overnight in the heaviest bombing raids yet in a six-day operation led by Saudi Arabia.
Final countdown: Iran nuclear talks continue as deadline looms
Wrapping up six days of marathon nuclear talks with mixed results, Iran and six world powers are preparing to issue a general statement agreeing to continue...
Assad accuses Turkey of allowing Islamic State free access to Syria
Jihadists who travel to Syria to join Islamic State are being “logistically and militarily” supported by Turkey on a daily basis, according...
Arab leaders agree joint military force as Yemen airstrikes continue
Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen will continue until Shiite rebels there withdraw and surrender their weapons, a summit of Arab leaders decided Sunday, as...
Yemen airstrikes to continue until rebels withdraw, say Arab leaders
Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen will continue until Shiite rebels there withdraw and surrender their weapons, a summit of Arab leaders decided Sunday, as...
Islamic fighters led by al-Qaeda in Syria seize major city
Islamic fighters led by al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria seized almost full control of the northwestern city of Idlib on Saturday, taking over major roundabouts...
Islamic fighters led by al-Qaida in Syria seize major city
Islamic fighters led by al-Qaida’s branch in Syria seized almost full control of the northwestern city of Idlib on Saturday, taking over major roundabouts...
Iran nuclear talks expand in battle of wills as deadline for deal looms
Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme have picked up pace with the foreign ministers of France and Germany joining U.S.
Saudi blogger Badawi views survival of 50 lashes as miracle
Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi described in his first letter from prison how he “miraculously survived 50 lashes” as part of a conviction...
Proxy wars between Iran and Saudi Arabia reach new fury
Airstrikes on Sanaa herald Yemen’s emergence as the latest theater for the proxy war between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite-dominated Iran. The...
Bombing at radical Islamist magazine in Istanbul kills one, injures three
A bomb attack on the offices of the monthly Adimlar Magazine in the Istanbul district of Kagithane has killed one person and wounded three others, Sabah...
Amnesty says Gazan militants committed war crimes
The human rights group Amnesty International said in a report Thursday that Palestinian militant organizations had committed war crimes during the 2014...
U.S. launches Tikrit air strikes to support Iraqi forces
At Iraq’s request, the U.S. began airstrikes in Tikrit on Wednesday in support of a stalled Iraqi ground offensive to retake the city from Islamic...
U.S., Afghan leaders lay groundwork for postwar relations
The United States and Afghanistan turned the page on years of distrust, mapping out a new vision for future ties as Washington vowed to fund Afghan forces...
Afghan protesters demand justice for woman killed by mob
Hundreds marched Monday in the Afghan capital, demanding justice for a woman beaten to death last week by a Kabul mob over false allegations she had burned...
Yemen on brink of civil war as Shiite rebels seize key city of Taiz
Shiite militia in Yemen seized the airport in a key central city Sunday as deteriorating security prompted the UN Security Council to call an emergency...
Hundreds attend funeral of innocent woman killed by mob in Kabul
A woman killed by an angry mob in front of police in the Afghan capital last week for allegedly burning a copy of Islam’s holy book was wrongly accused,...
Islamic State calls on backers to kill 100 U.S. military personnel
The Islamic State (IS) has posted online what it says are the names, U.S. addresses and photos of 100 American military service members, and called upon...
100 killed in fresh Syria attacks; 650,000 now living in besieged areas
More than 100 people were killed in Syria in 24 hours of violence after Islamic State fighters attacked regime troops and a suicide bomber caused carnage...
At least 142 killed as four suicide bombers target mosques in Yemen
At least 142 people have been killed and hundreds more injured after four suicide bombers attacked two mosques in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. The bombers...
Plane attacks Hadi’s Aden base as Yemen conflict worsens
Forces loyal to Yemen’s former president stormed the international airport in Aden on Thursday and sent fighter planes to bomb the palace in the...
Islamic State must be put on trial for genocide against Yazidis, insists UN
Islamic State jihadists should be prosecuted for committing genocide against the Yazidis in Iraq, the United Nations has said. The UN human rights...
Downing of U.S. drone suggests Syria imposing red lines on air war
After allowing the United States to use its air space to bomb Islamic State fighters for six months, the Syrian army appears to have imposed a “red...
U.S. rebukes Israel’s victorious Netanyahu on Mideast policy, Iran
The White House on Wednesday scolded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following his re-election victory for abandoning his commitment to negotiate...
Israeli voters chose ‘occupation over talks’, Palestinians say
Palestinians slammed Israelis on Wednesday for voting for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud party, saying they had chosen “occupation...
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