Middle East
Drone strikes kill five suspected militants in Yemen
A drone strike killed five suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen late on Friday, a local official and a tribal source told ...Iraqi Shia clerics issue call to arms to fight militants
Iraq’s senior Shiite cleric has urged his followers to take up arms in the face of a Sunni insurgency that has overrun ...Obama considering all options as Iraq erupts in violence
U.S. President Barack Obama has said his government is looking at "all options" to help Iraq fight Islamist militants who have captured the ...Jerusalem Palestinians strike in support of prisoners
Shops were shuttered in East Jerusalem on Thursday in solidarity with scores of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike to protest their ongoing ...Iraq militants push towards Baghdad after seizing 2 cities
Militant Islamists seized more territory in northern Iraq on Wednesday, moving south toward Baghdad as government forces scrambled to regroup after losing ...Bashar al-Assad says West changing position on Syria war
Western countries that back the revolt in Syria have started to shift position on the conflict because of the danger posed to ...Earth and Moon may be 60 million years older than previously thought
Work presented at the European Association of Geochemistry’s Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Sacramento, California shows that the timing of the giant impact ...Militants seize Saddam Hussein’s home town of Tikrit
Militant Islamists seized more territory in northern Iraq on Wednesday, moving south toward Baghdad as government forces scrambled to regroup after losing ...Half a million flee Iraqi city of Mosul
Half a million people were estimated Wednesday to have fled Iraq\'s second city of Mosul, as Islamist militants tightened their grip after ...Iraqi PM calls for emergency as militants seize Mosul
Iraq\'s prime minister has asked parliament to declare a state of emergency over a militant attack in Mosul.