A suicide bomber killed eight people and wounded 11 yesterday when he blew up his vehicle at the gate of a Yemeni army base, security

Israel will stop issuing work visas to Human Rights Watch staff, the NGO said yesterday, with the Jewish state accusing the group of being

An 18-month prison sentence for an Israeli soldier who shot dead a wounded Palestinian assailant is an "unacceptable" punishment

Iraqi forces yesterday thrust into Mosul airport on the southern edge of the jihadist stronghold for the first time since the Islamic State group overran the region in 2014.

Turkish-backed Syrian rebels yesterday announced that they had taken full control of the northern town of Al-Bab from the Islamic

Iran said Wednesday it has sent a team for talks in Saudi Arabia on the next annual pilgrimage after missing the hajj in 2016 at a time of

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull attacked the United Nations for "one-sided resolutions" against Israel's push to build

Afghanistan is set to criminalise the practice of "bacha bazi", sexual exploitation of boys, with a slew of stringent punishments laid out

Bahrain police have arrested 20 people in a crackdown on Shia villages, as legislators approved a constitutional amendment that could

Negotiations aimed at finding a political solution to the war in Syria are set to begin at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva

A young Israeli soldier who killed a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment yesterday, in a show of leniency that drew Palestinian outrage after one of the most divisive trials in Israel's history.

Dubai police summon a Russian model who posed for a video while dangling from a skyscraper to sign a pledge not to put her life in danger again, a local newspaper reports.

A convoy carrying Libya's contested unity government chief, Fayez al-Sarraj, and other top officials came under heavy gunfire yesterday

Fighters from the Islamic State group, whose abuses against Yazidi women have been well documented, are raping and torturing Sunni

Israel and the US will set up a joint team to discuss Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Prime Minister

UN envoy Staffan de Mistura yesterday questioned US President Donald Trump's engagement in solving the Syrian

The UN has condemned the killing of 12 Afghans, including eight children returning from school, by a roadside bomb in the country's

In the aftermath of a barrel bomb attack in Syria's Idlib, nine-year-old Abdel Basset Al-Satuf tries to sit up, his legs blown off, and

IS' “business model” is failing as jihadists lose their grip on territory and the vital oil and tax revenue it brings, a new report has found.

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard is to conduct military drills next week, a senior commander announced Saturday, despite warnings from