Middle East

Shadia Bseiso certainly loves breaking norms. Not only is she a professional martial arts athlete who – literally – fought…

The Pentagon said Monday it was reviewing soldiers’ contributions to a “Global Heat Map” posted by Strava Labs, a San…

United Nations Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura will head a new constitutional commission that will be set up at a…

Militants attacked an Afghan army unit guarding a military academy in the capital of Kabul on Monday, killing at least…

Last October, after weeks of bitter combat, some 1,400 “Islamic State” (IS) fighters turned themselves in, expediting Hawija’s liberation. In a…

The embattled government of Yemen said on Sunday that separatists from the country’s south were trying to launch a coup…

Gunmen launched a pre-dawn raid on a military compound in Kabul on Monday, officials said, in an assault that caused…

Yemen’s prime minister accused southern separatists of an attempted coup on Sunday after they took over the government headquarters amid…

Afghanistan went into national mourning on Sunday after an attack the previous day in the capital that saw a huge…

The Syrian government and a war monitor said on Sunday that Turkish shelling of the Kurdish-held Afrin region of Syria…