Middle East
More than 40 refugees dead in attack on boat off Yemen
More than 40 people including women and children have been shot dead aboard a boat carrying Somali refugees in the Red Sea ...Israel intercepts missile fired at its air force in Syria
The Israeli military said it shot down one of numerous anti-aircraft missiles launched on Friday at its air force which was operating ...Syrian war monitor says 465,000 killed in six years of fighting
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Monday there are so far about 465,000 people killed and ...Syria air force bombed convoy, U.N. says in Aleppo probe
Syrian government aircraft deliberately bombed and strafed a humanitarian convoy, killing 14 aid workers and halting relief operations, U.N. investigators said on ...Israel aircraft attack Hamas targets after rocket fired from Gaza
Israeli aircraft carried out a series of strikes in Gaza on Monday, wounding two people, health officials and witnesses said, after a ...Iraq forces in west Mosul aim for key bridge
Iraqi forces battled jihadists in west Mosul on Sunday, aiming to build a floating bridge across the Tigris to establish an important ...Israel reinstates life term of Hamas prisoner freed in swap
An Israeli court has ordered a senior Hamas member to complete his life sentence after he was freed in a 2011 swap ...11 family members dead in rebel push on IS Syria bastion
Eleven members of the same family were killed on Monday as Turkey-backed Syrian rebels advanced on the town of Al-Bab held by ...Huge Baghdad car bomb kills at least 52
A powerful car bomb ripped through a used car market in the south of Iraq\'s capital Thursday, killing more than 50 people ...Syrian opposition wants Geneva talks on political transition
The main Syrian opposition body said on Wednesday it wanted face-to-face negotiations with the Damascus government about a political transition at peace ...




