Spain: 3 Moroccan terror suspects arrested in Madrid
Spain's Interior Ministry says three Moroccans holding Spanish residency have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to a group linked to Islamic State extremists.
Without...
Israel sets three-year minimum jail sentence for stone throwers
Israel's lawmakers have voted to impose a minimum three-year jail sentence on stone throwers, the Knesset website said, weeks after the premier vowed "war"...
Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi who pushed Bush to invade Iraq dies
Ahmed Chalabi, the smooth-talking Iraqi politician who pushed Washington to invade Iraq in 2003 with discredited information on Saddam Hussein's military capabilities, died on...
Egypt president: ISIS jet claim is 'propaganda'
Egypt's president has dismissed claims that a Russian passenger jet was downed by a branch of Islamic State as propaganda, after the airline said...
Obama says Syria deployment doesn't break no 'boots on ground' pledge
President Barack Obama said on Monday the planned deployment of dozens of U.S. special forces to Syria to advise opposition forces fighting Islamic State...
Russia sends Syria 100,000 tons of wheat as aid
Russia has provided Syria with around 100,000 tonnes of wheat as aid, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
With the country's civil war...
British Prime Minister seeking vote to carry out Syria airstrikes
British Prime Minister David Cameron has not dropped plans to seek parliamentary support to bomb Islamist militants in Syria, a source in his office...
Rare cyclone batters Yemen, thousands flee homes
A cyclone with hurricane-force winds made landfall on Yemen's Arabian Sea coast on Tuesday, flooding the country's fifth-largest city Mukalla and sending thousands of...
Two contractors held in Yemen do not work for United Nations
The United Nations said on Monday that two contractors detained by authorities in Yemen's capital Sanaa were not working for the world body, but...
Cyclone ravages Yemeni island, heads for LNG plant, Qaeda-run city
A rare tropical cyclone packing hurricane-force winds killed three people and injured scores on the exotic Yemeni island of Socotra on Monday and then...
