Al Qaeda militants take over two south Yemen towns, residents say
Al Qaeda fighters retook on Wednesday two southern Yemeni towns they briefly occupied four years ago, residents and local fighters said, exploiting the collapse...
Turkey’s Erdogan says U.S. can no longer be a mediator between Israel and Palestinians
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that the United States could no longer be a mediator in efforts to end Israeli-Palestinian conflict after...
Saudi ISIS fighter 'Al-Atawi' killed in Syria
Saudi national, Adnan al-Atawai, has been killed by a sniper bullet in a town near Damascus.
Al-Atawi allegedly attempted to smuggle his wife from Saudi...
Paris police shoot dead knife-wielding man on Charlie Hebdo anniversary
Paris police shot dead on Thursday a man wielding a knife after he tried to enter a police station shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is...
Iran: Saudi meeting of Syrian opposition 'may harm peace talks'
Iran said a meeting of Syrian opposition figures in Riyadh, Saudi, will cause failure of Syrian peace talks among major Western and Middle Eastern countries, the...
Iraqi Kurd leader: 'Time has come' for statehood referendum
Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani has declared that the "time has come" for the country's Kurds to hold a referendum on statehood, a move...
Palestine to host World Cup match against Saudi Arabia in Jordan
Palestine will host this month's home World Cup qualifiers against Saudi Arabia and Malaysia in Jordan, soccer's governing body FIFA said on Thursday.
FIFA announced...
Hamburg Islamist knife attacker gets life in prison
A Palestinian jihadist who killed one man and wounded six other people in a German supermarket knife rampage last year was sentenced on Thursday...
Footballer Lionel Messi to be tried on tax fraud charges
Argentina and Barcelona star Lionel Messi and his father Jorge are to stand trial on three counts of tax fraud that could carry prison...
Kerry calls for common ground with Russia on Syria and Ukraine
The United States and Russia need to find "common ground" to end Syria's civil war and restore stability in eastern Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of...
