Arab Armies

“They were not outnumbered. In fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force and yet they failed to fight and withdrew from the site,” he said.

The stories of two Sunni leaders — one a tribal chief, the other a former insurgent — show why locals opposed to the Islamic State

Why Obama’s bet on letting our friends and enemies slug it out in the Middle East is so risky.

Parliament on Tuesday rejected a demand by a Shiite MP to question the foreign minister over Kuwait's participation in Saudi-led airstrikes against Shiite Huthi rebels in Yemen.

As Prince Muhammad bin Salman's proactive approach to regional affairs becomes clearer, the novice defense minister could lead the kingdom to overreach in Yemen.

Yemen's Shiite Huthi rebels said on Monday they shot down a warplane of the Saudi-led coalition, shortly after Morocco reported one of its fighter jets missing on a sortie.

Yemen seems doomed to remain a pawn in the ever-worsening Saudi-Iranian cold war.

An unpublicized meeting by Arab chiefs of staff will take place in Cairo on May 18 to coordinate plans for a Libyan intervention, an Arab League source revealed. France and Italy may also play a role

The once-forgotten front line in north-western Syria has come to the fore again as a new rebel alliance churns out a series of major victories against the forces of president Bashar Al Assad.

Amid the fight against the Islamic State, Iraq is witnessing another struggle for power between Abadi’s nationalist Shia factions and Iranian-backed militias.