UNICEF: Millions of Yemeni children may starve amid pandemic
CAIRO (AP) — Millions of children could be pushed to the brink of starvation as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across war-torn Yemen amid a...
Scandals highlight Israeli leader’s media obsession
Benjamin Netanyahu came to prominence as a star of the media age, an upgrade from older Israeli politicians in his telegenic poise, mastery of...
Yemen: Why is Riyadh flexing its muscles?
Saudi Arabia’s military campaign in Yemen is now well into its fourth month but the endgame remains unclear. Perhaps that is because Yemen itself...
UN warns of Israeli-Palestinian 'catastrophe' as attacks persist
The United Nations warned Wednesday that a deadly surge in violence between Israelis and Palestinians was headed toward "catastrophe" as new knife attacks took...
Victory proves elusive in Saudi king's Yemen war
In Yemen's humid southern port of Aden, Saudi Arabian soldiers in armoured cars patrol streets where jihadists lurk. In Marib, east of the capital...
Afghanistan postpones its presidential inauguration
A ceremony to swear in Ashraf Ghani as president has been delayed, but contradicted reasons cited a day earlier by the U.S. government behind...
Secret detention camp in Greece for migrant
The New York Times reported Wednesday that Greece has a "secret site" on the border with Turkey to incarcerate and expel migrants arriving in...
Syria air strikes: David Cameron warns of long campaign
The mission to target so-called Islamic State militants in Syria could take some time and will require persistence, PM David Cameron has said.
RAF Tornados...
How the Kremlin turns extremist attacks to its own advantage
As French President Francois Hollande visits both Washington and Moscow to solicit aid in fighting Islamic State (IS), which has claimed responsibility for the...
How the war on Isis is redrawing the map of the Middle East
New borders are being drawn, new fiefdoms are being carved out and the seeds of potential conflicts are being sown
Along the vast, zigzagging perimeter...
