RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA- Nineteen people, including 12 Pakistani nationals, have been arrested in Saudi Arabia following suicide attacks on Monday, including one near Islam's second-holiest site in the...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- More than 60 civilians were killed by shelling and air strikes in the northwest of Syria on Friday, a monitoring group said, hours before the end of a shaky ceasefire for the Eid...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- Millions of Muslims on Wednesday celebrated the festival at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, marked this year by a series of deadly jihadist attacks. The three-day Eid al-Fitr...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA, Maher Al Mounes with Karam al-Masri in Aleppo- The Syrian army said Wednesday it was observing a 72-hour ceasefire across the country coinciding with the festival marking the end of...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Alice Ritchie- Former British prime minister Tony Blair on Wednesday made a passionate defence of the 2003 war in Iraq, after a long-awaited official inquiry condemned it as...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- US-backed rebels on Sunday accused Al-Qaeda-linked fighters of storming their headquarters in northwestern Syria and kidnapping their commander and dozens of other combattants. In an...

KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT- Kuwaiti security authorities have broken up three Islamic State cells plotting "terror" attacks in the oil-rich Gulf state, the interior ministry said Monday. Five Kuwaiti...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- Islamist rebels captured and killed a Syrian air force pilot after his plane crashed near Damascus on Friday, the army said. A monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human...

TRIPOLI, LIBYA- Libyan pro-unity government forces said they seized a key central district of the Islamic State jihadist group's coastal bastion of Sirte on Friday. Fighters allied to the Government...