Middle East
18 wounded in Taliban attack Afghan parliament with bomb, gunfire
A Taliban suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday, shattering windows and forcing lawmakers to flee, as a second district...
Yemen hit by deadly car bomb and air strikes as UN sounds warning
A car bomb exploded Saturday near a mosque in the Old City of the rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa, causing an unknown number of casualties, witnesses and...
UN-brokered Yemen peace talks end with no deal
Yemen’s exiled government and Shiite rebels who control the capital failed to agree on even a temporary cease-fire Friday as they wrapped up U.N.-brokered...
Israeli church where ‘Jesus fed the 5,000’ is gutted by arsonists
A famous Israeli church complex has been ruined in what is thought to have been an arson attack by a gang of youths.
IS attack on Iraq’s biggest oil refinery kills five policemen
Islamic State has killed five policemen in a town near Iraq’s biggest refinery, in an attack that may help ease pressure on some of its fighters...
Palestinian President announces unity government will dissolve
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced the national unity government he formed with Hamas last year will dissolve.
IS suffers ‘biggest setback’ as Kurds take Syria border town
Kurdish fighters seized control Tuesday of a key border town from the Islamic State group, cutting a major supply line in the biggest setback yet for the...
Yemen’s new al-Qaida leader chosen after death of Nasir al-Wahishi
Qassem al-Rimi, the new leader of Al-Qaeda’s most feared branch, was among the Yemen-based group’s founders and its military chief who has...
Kurds seize key Syrian town from IS militants and cut off supply routes
Kurdish militia, backed by Syrian rebel forces, have seized control of a key border town from Islamic State, dealing a major blow to the militant group.
Kurdish fighters seize large parts of IS border stronghold
U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters captured large sections of a strategic town on the Syria-Turkish border on Monday, dealing the biggest setback yet to the...
US airstrike targets al-Qaida-linked militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar
The U.S military launched weekend airstrikes targeting and likely killing an al-Qaida-linked militant leader in eastern Libya who has been charged with...
Syrian Kurds nearing IS border stronghold, thousands flee
Hundreds of Syrian refugees poured into a Turkish-Syrian border crossing Saturday, fleeing intense fighting as Syrian Kurds closed in on an Islamic State-held...
Islamic State says it blew up two warplanes at seized Libyan base
The militant group Islamic State’s Libya wing released a video on Thursday purportedly showing it blowing up two warplanes at an air base while its...
Islamic State says blows up two warplanes at seized Libyan base
The militant group Islamic State’s Libya wing released a video on Thursday purportedly showing it blowing up two warplanes at an air base while its...
Syrian rebels ‘capture army base in south’ in fresh blow for President Assad
Syrian rebels said they had captured a major base from the Syrian army in the south of the country on Tuesday, a setback that would increase pressure on...
Jihadists’ slave markets sell girls at any price: UN envoy
Teenage girls abducted by Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria are being sold in slave markets “for as little as a pack of cigarettes,”...
Soldier who killed 16 Afghans says he was ‘consumed by war’
The U.S. soldier who murdered 16 Afghan villagers in 2012 says he had lost compassion for Iraqis and Afghans over the course of his four combat deployments. The...
Saudi Arabia court upholds sentence of 10 years and 1,000 lashes for blogger
Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has upheld a 10-year prison sentence and 1,000 lashes for the jailed blogger Raif Badawi, according to the human rights...
Saudi Arabia shoots down Scud missile fired from Yemen
Saudi Arabia said it intercepted a Scud missile fired on its territory by rebel forces in neighbouring Yemen early Saturday as momentum gathers for peace...
UN report cites alleged Israel crimes against children
U.N. agencies in Israel and the Palestinian territories reported an alarming number of child victims in last year’s war in the Gaza Strip but were...
Saddam Hussein’s former right-hand man Tariq Aziz dies aged 79
Jailed former Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz, who served in Saddam Hussein’s government, has died, officials say.
Islamic State mounts suicide attacks around Syria’s Hasaka city: Official
Islamic State bombers have blown up about a dozen explosive-packed trucks at Syrian army checkpoints around the government-held northeastern city of Hasaka...
Israel strikes Hamas post in Gaza after rocket attacks
Israeli airstrikes hit Hamas training sites in Gaza early Thursday in response to earlier rocket fire toward Israel from the strip, the Israeli military...
Al Qaeda’s Syria wing sees no peace with Islamic State soon: TV
The head of al Qaeda’s Syria wing Nusra Front said he saw no solution soon to a conflict with the rival Islamic State group in Syria that has killed...
Iran’s Rouhani vows to back embattled Syria ‘until the end of the road’
Iran will back Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad until the end, Iranian news agencies quoted President Hassan Rouhani as saying on Tuesday signalling...
Iraqi PM to outline plan for retaking Ramadi after IS gains
Iraq’s plan to recapture the western city of Ramadi from Islamic State jihadists will dominate a meeting Tuesday in Paris of foreign ministers from...
Fire at medical clinic in Syria kills 27, mostly children
A fire at a medical clinic in northeast Syria has killed 27 people, mostly children, say reports.
IS destroys infamous Syria prison as regime bombing kills scores
Islamic State group jihadists demolished a notorious government prison in the historic Syrian city of Palmyra on Saturday, as barrel bombs dropped by regime...
Activists say Syrian army strikes kill 70 people in Aleppo
Syrian army airstrikes killed at least 70 people, most of them civilians, and wounded scores in attacks Saturday in the northern province of Aleppo that...
One month to deadline: Kerry, Zarif launch key nuclear talks in Geneva
Top U.S. diplomat John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif began key nuclear talks in Geneva on Saturday ahead of a June 30 deadline...
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