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Forty-five soldiers from the United Arab Emirates’ military, 10 from Saudi Arabia and five from Bahrain have been killed while taking part in a military campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, in the deadliest day for Gulf forces since the conflict began.

The witnesses said the coalition warplanes pounded positions of the Houthi rebels and bases of splinter troops loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

United Nations: The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for executing at least 30 people for sodomy, the head of an worldwide gay rights organisation said today at the first-ever UN Security Council meeting spotlighting what organisers called the...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he is confident he has the continuing support of key allies Iran and Russian Federation .

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said last month that more than 37,000 foreign fighters have died during the ongoing conflict in Syria.

Turkey and the U.S. are also about to finalize an agreement on the technical details for Turkey’s inclusion in counter-Daesh air campaign.

A military captain was killed in Sirnak province late Friday as insurgents attacked a army outpost with rockets and machine weapons.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The United Arab Emirates said Sunday that its military freed a British hostage who was kidnapped 18 months ago by al-Qaida in Yemen, which has expanded its reach amid fighting between Shiite rebels and their opponents.

The US has asked Australia to support air strikes and carry out intelligence surveillance, reconnaissance and air refuelling in Syria’s border areas.

It said regime forces kept up airstrikes against ISIS to stave off the militants, as the extremist group stepped up offensives against both government forces and other insurgents in northern Syria.

The United States and Turkey will launch a “comprehensive” air campaign to flush Daesh fighters from a designated safe zone in northern Syria bordering Turkey, Reuters reported.

In a report released Tuesday, August 18, 2015, Amnesty worldwide says all sides fighting in Yemen have left a “trail of civilian death and destruction” in the conflict, killing scores of innocent people in what could amount to war crimes.

It was the first time in two years that the council agreed on a political statement on Syria, which French Deputy Ambassador Alexis Lamek described as “historic”.

But Prime Minister Tony Abbott says while the legalities of helping with air strikes over Syria are different to Iraq, where the government invited Australia to fight, the moralities are exactly the same.

“It is with utmost dismay that I learned of the airstrike on a teachers’ office in Amran, Yemen which killed 13 teachers, 4 children and injured 20 people on Tuesday night”.