Middle East
Libya and Egypt ask UN to lift arms embargo to fight Islamic State
Libya and Egypt asked the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to lift an arms embargo on Libya, impose a naval blockade ...Syria willing to halt Aleppo airstrikes for six weeks
The Syrian government is willing to suspend its aerial bombardment and artillery shelling of the northern city of Aleppo so that a ...Egypt bombs Islamic State targets in Libya after 21 Egyptians beheaded
Egypt\'s air force bombed Islamic State targets inside Libya on Monday, a day after the group released a video showed the beheading ...35 IS jihadists killed in clashes with Syria Kurds
At least 35 Islamic State jihadists were killed on Sunday in clashes with Syrian Kurdish fighters around the flashpoint town of Kobane, ...Video purports to show Islamic State militants in Libya beheading Christian hostages
A video purporting to show the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages was released Sunday by militants in Libya affiliated with the ...Bahrain police fire tear gas as protests mark uprising
Bahraini police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Shiite protesters who took to the streets Saturday on the fourth anniversary of ...UAE, Spain shut embassies in Yemen capital
The United Arab Emirates and Spain said Saturday they had suspended operations at their embassies in Yemen following a Shiite militia takeover ...Egypt frees two Al Jazeera journalists on bail
Two remaining Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt on charges of aiding a "terrorist organization" were freed on bail on Thursday after ...US, UK and France close embassies in Yemen
The United States, Britain and France rushed to close their embassies over security fears in Yemen, with US staff destroying top-secret documents ...20,000 foreign fighters head to Syria
Foreign fighters are flocking to Syria at an "unprecedented" rate, with more than 20,000 volunteers from around the world joining the Islamic ...




