MAKHMOUR, Iraq — When Islamic State militants swept across northern Iraq last summer, the Sunni al-Lehib tribe welcomed them as revolutionaries fighting the Shiite-led government in Baghdad. But less ...
CAIRO – In a remote outpost in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Ibrahim Abu-Sefira watches a mountainous skyline of jagged rock, ears tuned to the twilight silence, listening for any signs a fragile peace may ...
SANAA, Yemen – A Yemeni tribal leader was killed Tuesday in confrontations between security forces and protesters demanding the resignation of President Abdullah Saleh, witnesses said They said Sheik ...
When Islamic State militants swept across northern Iraq last summer, the Sunni al-Lehib tribe welcomed them as revolutionaries fighting the Shiite-led government in Baghdad. But less than a year later ...
Investigators lifted fingerprints, swabbed dust and collected tissue from the sites of three car bombings Saturday and detained dozens of Bedouin tribesmen, including quarry workers who could have ...
A Pakistani army cordon tightening around their mud-brick compounds, leaders of a tribe along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border say they are desperate to avoid bloodshed as a deadline to turn over ...
NEW DELHI (AP) -- The first time American John Allen Chau visited the isolated island in the seas between India and Southeast Asia, he came bearing gifts that included a football and fish. He ...
Officials in Pakistan's tribal region of South Waziristan have detained at least 30 people on suspicion of having links with Islamic militants. The arrests come after efforts to persuade local ...