Iraqi parliament has elected a veteran Kurdish politician as the country’s new president, a step toward forming a new government, Iraqi state TV said. Barham Salih, of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, won 220 votes out of the 273 lawmakers who attended Tuesday’s session. He was among 20 candidates for ...
Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have intercepted and targeted a Saudi unmanned aerial vehicle as it was flying in the skies over the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Najran. An unnamed Yemen military source said Yemeni air defense forces and their allies shot down the ...