Middle East
US officials confirm Israeli strike in Iraq
U.S. officials have confirmed that Israel was responsible for the bombing of an Iranian weapons depot in Iraq last month, an attack ...Airstrikes on Syrian rebel stronghold kill family of 7
Government and Russian airstrikes pounded the southern edge of a rebel stronghold in Syria\'s northwest, killing at least seven members of one ...US issues warrant for seizure of Iranian tanker in Gibraltar
The US Justice Department issued a warrant for the seizure of the Iranian oil supertanker Grace 1, one day after a Gibraltar ...Thousands of Yemenis rally in support of separatists in Aden
Thousands of Yemenis have rallied in the port city of Aden in support of southern separatists who seized the city from the ...Iran seizes third foreign ship in less than a month
Iran has seized a "foreign vessel" in the Gulf, state media said, in what would be the third such seizure in a ...Israel, US successfully test ballistic missile interceptor
Israel and the United States have successfully carried out tests of a ballistic missile interceptor that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said provides ...More than 400,000 displaced in northwest Syria in 3 months: UN
More than 400,000 people have been displaced in northwestern Syria over the past three months, the UN said, as the government presses ...Iraqi forces clear farmland near Baghdad of IS militants
Iraqi security forces were sweeping villages and farmland north of Baghdad as part of an operation aimed at clearing remnants of the ...Militants bomb, derail phosphate train in central Syria
Syria\'s transport ministry said a freight train carrying phosphate derailed and caught fire after getting hit by explosives planted on the tracks ...European powers urge Iran to release British-flagged tanker
European powers urged Iran to release a British-flagged tanker it seized in the Strait of Hormuz in what Britain called a "dangerous" ...




