A drone strike early yesterday killed seven suspected al-Qaeda militants in southern Yemen, a security official said.

Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, detained in the kingdom’s sweeping crackdown on corruption, says that he expects to be cleared of any wrongdoing and be released from custody within days.

At least 30 African migrants drowned when their boat capsized off war-torn Yemen this week with reports of gunfire being used

US Ambassador Nikki Haley took direct aim at Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Thursday, telling the United Nations Security

Bangladesh urges the Security Council to prevail upon Israel to immediately halt its illegal settlements and violence in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Clashes in the Yemeni rebel heartland of Saada province have killed 40 rebel fighters, Saudi media said yesterday, while the rebels

A double car bombing in the east Libyan city of Benghazi left at least 35 people dead and dozens more wounded, including senior

Saudi Arabia is to begin issuing tourist visas soon, opening up one of the last frontiers of global tourism -- a sector touted as the desert kingdom's "white oil" -- as it steps up diversification efforts to wean itself off its crude oil dependence.

Iraq's parliament has confirmed May 12 as the date for holding a parliamentary election, state TV reported yesterday.

The Philippines yesterday raised the alert level at its Mayon volcano after a loud explosion in the wake of increased activity made a hazardous

A group of separatists in southern Yemen, backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have declared a state of

US Vice President Mike Pence pledged yesterday that his country would move its Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to

An Iraqi court yesterday sentenced to death a German woman of Moroccan origin for membership of Islamic State, a

Vice President Mike Pence told Egypt's leader on Saturday the United States would support a two-state solution for

Turkish ground forces pushed into northern Syria's Afrin province yesterday, Ankara said after launching artillery

US Vice President Mike Pence headed for Egypt yesterday to begin a Middle East trip overshadowed by anger in the

Yemen's Houthi movement fired a ballistic missile toward the southern Saudi province of Najran yesterday, the group's

Former Egyptian armed forces chief of staff General Sami Anan yesterday said he intended to run in the country's

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said a military operation in Syria's Kurdish-controlled Afrin region had

A delegation approved by the Taliban's supreme leader visited the Pakistani capital this week for exploratory talks on restarting peace