Kerry and Jubeir say getting closer to an understanding on Syria ceasefire
Talks with Russia and coalition partners are "getting closer to a place of understanding" on renewing a ceasefire in Syria, including around the city...
Belgium police arrest 16, Paris fugitive still at large
Belgian police carried out raids throughout the tense capital, detaining 16 people, prosecutors said early Monday. Paris fugitive Salah Abdeslam was not among those...
Iraq summons Saudi envoy over comments on Iran-backed militias
Iraq summoned the new Saudi ambassador on Sunday after he suggested Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias were exacerbating sectarian tensions and should leave the fight against...
Suicide bomber kills 13 recruits at Yemen army camp
A suicide bomber killed at least 13 recruits at a Yemeni army camp run by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government in the southern port...
Obama to assure Saudi King of U.S. help against Iran threat
President Barack Obama will assure Saudi King Salman of the U.S. commitment to help counter any Iranian security threat, White House officials said on...
Russia, Iran should stop Syrian government violations, Turkey says
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday that Syrian government air strikes in eastern Ghouta were unacceptable, and called on Russia and Iran...
Arab coalition slowing aid efforts in Yemen – U.S. Navy report
Aid to Yemen is being slowed by a Saudi-led coalition which has warned commercial vessels to stay away from areas hit by fighting, a...
Violence returns to Jerusalem after 2-week break
Israeli security forces on Tuesday killed two alleged Palestinian stabbers, and two Palestinian boys stabbed and moderately wounded a security guard on a train,...
Iran president decries U.S. ‘terrorism’ after Trump remarks
Iranian President Hassan Rowhani has accused the United States of having “created terrorism” as he reacted to presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call for a...
Splinter Taliban group threatens more school attacks
The head of a breakaway Taliban faction behind this week's attack at a northwestern Pakistani university that killed 21 people, most of them students,...
