A drone strike in Yemen likely carried out by US forces on Thursday killed a local al-Qaeda chief and his guard, a security official said.

Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed on Thursday said all jihadists returning from foreign battlefields would be immediately arrested

Saudi Arabia has invited regional rival Iran to discuss a return of its nationals to next year's hajj after Iranians were excluded from the

Azerbaijani forces yesterday killed three Armenian troops in the latest border clash between the neighbours locked in a

Israel's attorney-general has ordered police to open a criminal investigation in two unspecified matters involving Prime

Iraqi security forces yesterday began the second phase of their offensive against Islamic State militants in Mosul, pushing into

US Secretary of State John Kerry says Israel's building of settlements on occupied land is jeopardizing Middle East peace, voicing unusually frank frustration with America's longtime ally weeks before he is due to leave office.

An air strike has disabled the last bridge linking eastern and western Mosul, a city Iraqi forces are fighting to retake from jihadists,

The bodies of 11 migrants who died trying to make the perilous journey to Europe have washed up on beaches around Libya's capital

Russia said yesterday that a US decision to ease restrictions on arming Syrian rebels had opened the way for deliveries of shoulder-

A Saudi man has been jailed for one year for calling for an end to the Muslim kingdom's guardianship system that gives men wide

The shock announcement of Afghanistan's first woman fixed-wing pilot to seek asylum in the US has touched off a spirited national

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has approved a law to set up a council headed by his appointees that oversees the media and

Islamic State group fighters "summarily executed" 13 civilians after villagers rose up against them at the start of the Iraqi army's

More than 2,000 Saudis are fighting abroad with jihadist groups, with over 70 percent of them in Syria, the kingdom's

Israel will re-assess its ties with the United Nations following the adoption by the Security Council of a resolution

Syrian rebels shelled Aleppo and air strikes resumed around the city on Friday as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies said the insurgents' withdrawal from the city could pave the way towards a political solution for the country.

Egypt said yesterday it agreed to delay a vote on a UN Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements during a phone call between

The number of migrants and refugees who have perished while trying to cross the Mediterranean this year has passed 5,000, the UN said

The Iraqi air force dropped four million letters over Mosul on Thursday, the US-led coalition said, in a move aimed at providing "empathy