U.S. defense chief lays ground for Obama meeting with Gulf allies
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and his Gulf Arab counterparts met in Riyadh on Wednesday to discuss ways to counter Iranian influence and fight...
Egypt government appeals court block on Saudi island deal
Egypt's government said Wednesday it had lodged an appeal against a court decision to block the controversial handover of two uninhabited Red Sea islands...
18 dead in Oman as bus and truck collide
A head-on collision involving a truck and a bus killed 18 people of various nationalities in western Oman on Tuesday, police said.
Sixteen people were...
Tunisia kills 21 jihadists after attack near Libya border
Tunisian forces killed 21 jihadists who attacked police and army posts near the Libyan border on Monday in a new spillover of violence that...
U.N. Syria envoy delays peace talks to ensure players are serious
The start of a new round of peace talks on the Syrian war has been pushed back by two days so that U.N. mediator...
Saudi intercepts and destroys ballistic missile from Yemen
Saudi Arabia has intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired from Yemen and a Saudi-led military coalition said in a statement late on Monday...
Iran accepts invitation to Syria peace talks in Vienna
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and three of his deputies will attend multilateral talks on Friday in Vienna that seek to resolve the...
German police watching more than 400 potential Islamist militants
The number of Islamist militant fighters returning to Germany from Syria and Iraq is on the rise and more than 400 people are being...
Dozens of U.S. diplomats urge military strikes against Syria's Assad
More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of U.S. policy in Syria, calling for military strikes against President...
Suicide bombers kill 5 in eastern Lebanon near Syria border
A group of suicide bombers detonated their explosives' vests in a northeastern Lebanese village near the border with Syria on Monday, killing five people...
