ALEPPO, SYRIA- Government and rebel-held parts of Syria's Aleppo have been without safe water for nearly three weeks because the war-torn city's only pumping station is not functioning, residents...

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA- A car bomb exploded Thursday night at a security checkpoint in the Saudi capital Riyadh, killing the driver and wounding two policemen, the interior ministry said. The blast...

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- Israel is responsible for the 2008 murder of a top security aide of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to secret US intelligence files. Brigadier General Mohammed...

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND- Thousands of Ethiopians and other migrants are flooding into war-torn Yemen, the United Nations said Tuesday, with many of them tricked by smugglers into believing the fighting...

TEHRAN, IRAN, Arthur MacMillan- President Hassan Rouhani told Iranians that "all our objectives" have been met by a nuclear deal agreed on Tuesday after epic talks with world powers. The pact is...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- At least 23 people, among them a child, were killed in government raids on the Islamic State group-held town of Al-Bab in northern Syria on Monday, a monitor said. The Syrian...

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES- Bahrain's King Hamad on Monday pardoned leading rights activist Nabeel Rajab, serving a six-month jail sentence, for "health reasons", the official news agency BNA...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- An explosion Sunday in a tunnel near Aleppo Citadel in Syria damaged a wall of the fortress that is part of the UNESCO-listed Old City, state media and a monitor reported. The blast...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ- A string of bomb explosions, including two suicide attacks, killed at least 21 people and wounded 62 in Shiite-dominated neighbourhoods of Baghdad Sunday, Iraqi police and medical...