Somali Islamists publicly execute two officials
Islamist militant group al Shabaab publicly executed a Somali military officer and the leader of a small town in the southern Somali region of...
Syrian government ready to take part in UN peace talks
Syria is ready to take part in U.N.-organized peace talks and hopes the dialogue will help the country find a solution to the crisis,...
Fire at Saudi hospital kills 31, injures 107
A pre-dawn fire at a hospital in Saudi Arabia's southwestern port city of Jazan on Thursday killed 31 people and injured 107, the Saudi civil...
Libya: No immediate call for foreign airstrikes against ISIS
Libya's U.N. ambassador said Wednesday his country will hold off asking nations like the United States and Britain to intervene with airstrikes against the...
Iraq looks to reopen oil pipeline through Saudi Arabia
Iraq is seeking to reopen its crude oil export pipeline through Saudi Arabia, shut in 1990, state newspaper Assababah reported citing an unidentified Iraqi...
Syria activists accuse regime of chemical attack
Syrian activists have accused regime forces of using a “toxic gas” during clashes in a flash-point town southwest of Damascus, saying five men were...
Iran calls the new U.S. visa law breach of the nuclear deal
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday a new U.S. law putting visa restrictions on Iranians and those who had visited Iran...
Two Palestinian stabbers shot dead in Jerusalem attack
Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinians who had gone on a stabbing spree along a popular walkway in Jerusalem on Wednesday in what...
Syrian government ready to join UN talks to end conflict
A close adviser to Syrian President Bashar al Assad said on Wednesday Damascus was ready to join U.N.-sponsored peace talks with its position bolstered...
Security Council to vote on Libya peace deal
The U.N. security council on Wednesday is expected to vote on a resolution supporting a new U.N.-brokered deal to form a unity government in...
