SANAA/DUBAI (Reuters) - The Yemen-based wing of al Qaeda called for a regional Muslim holy war and a blockade of the Red Sea to cut off U.S. shipments to Israel, a further sign of the group's ambitions to mount new strikes outside its base. Yemen is in the throes of a major crackdown on the global militant ...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's state human rights body has hired a lawyer to review the case of a girl whose mother sought her divorce from an 80-year-old man, a move activists hope is a first step against child marriage. Saudi Arabia, a patriarchal society that applies an austere version of Sunni Islam, has no minimum legal age ...

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen has handed over to Shi'ite rebels a timetable to implement the government's ceasefire terms, in an effort to end the conflict in the north of the country, a Yemeni presidential adviser said on Saturday. "The security committee has drawn up a timetable ... and it has been handed over to (rebel leader Abdul-Malik) al-Houthi through mediators ...

Nigeria's state governors have called on the country's absent president to cede power to the vice president to calm a growing constitutional crisis in the West African nation. The governors said in a statement Thursday that President Umaru Yar'Adua should issue a ...