Bodies lay in the streets of a southern Yemeni town on Wednesday as government forces battled militants underscoring the gravity of Yemens multiple conflicts.
CAIRO The turmoil in Yemen which has seen its veteran president seek treatment in Saudi Arabia after a bomb attack makes the local Al-Qaeda franchise more dangerous, the top US uniformed commander Admiral Michael Mullen said on Wednesday.
BAGHDAD Al-Qaedas front group in Iraq claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a string of recent suicide bombings that killed at least 36 people, including a military intelligence chief.
BAGHDAD An Austrian Airlines flight landed in Baghdad on Wednesday, reconnecting the Iraqi capital with Europe through a regular scheduled flight for the first time since 1990.
MUSCAT - More than Omani 28,000 students will benefit from government scholarships for higher studies in the new academic year, an increase of over 40 per cent compared to the original plan.
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories Representatives of Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas will meet in Cairo on June 14 for new talks on the formation of an interim government, a Hamas official said Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia where wounded President Ali Abdullah Saleh is recuperating could be the key to solving the political turmoil in Yemen by pressing the veteran leader to transfer power
ISTANBUL - A total 122 Syrians, including women and children, fled across the border into Turkey overnight seeking refuge from the unrest in northwest Syria, Turkish state-run Anatolian news agency reported on Wednesday.