Gunmen killed 14 truck drivers and stole their vehicles on a highway north of Baghdad on Thursday, while dozens of other militants attacked a nearby town, a local administrative official said. The gunmen killed the

British Ambassador to Lebanon Tom Fletcher denied on Wednesday that blacklisting Hizbullah is a justification for Israeli action in the country. “Blacklisting Hizbullah's military wing is not a justification for Israeli action in Lebanon, but

A Syrian rebel group which has proclaimed loyalty to Al-Qaeda posted an audio recording attributed to its leader on Monday in which he promised a fight back. In the recording, Al-Nusra Front leader Abu

UN peace envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said Monday he was pressing on with plans for a conference aimed at ending the fighting, though no firm date is in sight. "It is extremely difficult

Shiite Iran has denounced the European Union for its decision to blacklist Hezbollah's armed wing as a terror group, accusing it of acting in Israel's interests, Iranian media reported Tuesday. Iran and Hezbollah are

Dutch authorities have arrested a 19-year-old woman suspected of recruiting jihadists to fight alongside radical Muslim rebels in Syria, a prosecution spokeswoman said on Monday. "The woman was arrested and has been remanded for two

Kuwait's appeals court on Monday overturned a three-year jail term on three former opposition MPs and acquitted them from the charge of insulting the emir, a rights activist said. In February, the lower court handed

The European Union added the military wing of Hizbulah to its list of international terrorist groups on Monday. The group was already on the blacklist in several countries, including EU member Britain: - ISRAEL: In June

The family of Mohammed Morsi is to take legal action against Egypt's army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, for "kidnapping" the Islamist president, his daughter said on Monday. "We are taking local and international legal

A car bomb exploded outside a Sunni mosque in a Bahrain neighbourhood where the royal court is situated but caused no casualties, the interior ministry said. The bomb, made from a gas cylinder, exploded late