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The Biden administration has imposed sanctions against two senior Houthi rebel leaders, accusing them of pursuing actions in Yemen to prolong the Middle Eastern country's civil war and deepen its humanitarian crisis.

Iraq began installing a floating bridge that will link west Mosul, which Iraq is trying to capture from the Islamic State, with the eastern half of the city.

Gunmen kidnapped Iraq's acting deputy justice minister, Abdul Karim al-Faris, Tuesday in Baghdad, security officials said.

Nasser al-Wuhayshi, reportedly al-Qaida's second-in-command and leader of the Arabian Peninsula branch, was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen.

Jordan wants Iraq to move quickly on implementation of an oil pipeline from the Iraqi port city of Basra, the Jordanian prime minister said.

"Iraq Star" winner Bassam Abdul Mehdi took time in Beirut, Lebanon, as he released his first single to thank those who supported him on the TV competition.

Government officials in Iraq Wednesday said lawmakers should disband any special unit involved in a raid on provincial offices in eastern Diyala province.

A prominent Yemeni newspaper and online editor was sentenced to six years in prison Monday for distributing publications sympathetic to insurrectionist rebels.

The International Federation of Journalists has called on Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh to dismiss terrorism charges against a journalist facing trial.

The U.S. military detained and released a prominent Sunni cleric and his two sons in Iraq Saturday.