Syria reports Israeli missile attack near capital, Damascus
<p>DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian air defenses were activated in the capital Damascus and its southern suburbs Sunday night to repel an Israeli missile attack,...
Libya media authority: Journalist detained after PM presser
CAIRO — Authorities in western Libya on Saturday revealed that they had detained a local journalist, two days after he disappeared in the capital...
Rights monitor says 3 dead as protests rage in southern Iraq
BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces fired live ammunition into a crowd of anti-government protesters on Friday in southern Iraq, killing three people, a human...
UN: Yemen faces world’s worst famine and needs $3.85 billion
UNITED NATIONS — Conflict-torn Yemen “is falling off a cliff” and will face the worst famine the world has seen for decades unless donors,...
Houthis again delay expert examination of tanker off Yemen
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations said Wednesday that new requests by Yemen’s Houthi rebels will further delay U.N. experts from examining an oil...
Secretive Israeli nuclear facility undergoes major project
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A secretive Israeli nuclear facility at the center of the nation's undeclared atomic weapons program is undergoing what appears...
UK police receive letter from UAE princess urging probe
LONDON — Police in eastern England say they have received a long-delayed letter from an Emirati princess asking them to investigate the disappearance of...
Houthis again delay expert examination of tanker off Yemen
<p>UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations said Wednesday that new requests by Yemen’s Houthi rebels will further delay U.N. experts from examining an oil...
Turkey: Woman drops kids from window to save them from fire
ISTANBUL — A woman rescued her four children from a burning building in Istanbul by throwing them out of a window, and all of...
Secretive Israeli nuclear facility undergoes major project
<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A secretive Israeli nuclear facility at the center of the nation's undeclared atomic weapons program is undergoing what appears...