Freed Al-Jazeera journalist celebrates return home to Kenya
Freed Australian journalist Peter Greste said Friday that returning to his home in Kenya almost two years after he was jailed in Egypt was...
Saudi Arabia imposes sanctions on at least 12 Hezbollah leaders
Saudi Arabia imposed sanctions on at least 12 senior Hezbollah figures accused of responsibility for carrying out operations for the group, which it had...
Turkey-Saudi ground operation in Syria 'not on agenda'
A military ground operation in Syria by Turkey and Saudi Arabia is not on the agenda and any such move would need to involve...
Russia raids on Idlib kill 23 civilians
Russian warplanes pounded an Al-Qaeda-held city in northwestern Syria overnight killing 23 civilians in the heaviest strikes in months, a monitoring group said on...
US to impose ‘strongest sanctions in history’ on Iran
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday warned Tehran would be hit with the "strongest sanctions in history" and cautioned European firms against...
Suicide bombers attack Yemeni army checkpoints, 10 killed
Two suicide bombers tried to ram vehicles laden with explosives through two Yemeni military checkpoints near the government-held port city of Mukalla on Monday,...
Turkey's Erdogan says Saudi executions are a domestic issue
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday executions in Saudi Arabia were a domestic issue after the Sunni-ruled country executed senior Shi'ite cleric Sheikh...
U.N. warns of dire food situation in Yemen’s Taiz
The U.N. World Food Program on Friday appealed for safe access to the Yemeni city of Taiz, saying that fighting between warring factions had...
Pakistanis hunt militants behind blast that killed at least 70
Pakistani authorities on Monday hunted members of a Taliban faction which once declared loyalty to Islamic State (ISIS) after the group claimed responsibility for...
UN refugee agency: Record 68.5 million displaced in 2017
The U.N. refugee agency reported Tuesday that nearly 69 million people who have fled war, violence and persecution were forcibly displaced last year, a...
