Syria truce task force meets as aid deliveries start
Aid workers on Monday made the first delivery of desperately needed assistance since the start of Syria's fragile ceasefire, as an international task force...
Explosion rocks Sanaa mosque during Eid prayers
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a mosque run by Yemen's Houthi group in the capital Sanaa on Thursday, the first day of...
Israel sets three-year minimum jail sentence for stone throwers
Israel's lawmakers have voted to impose a minimum three-year jail sentence on stone throwers, the Knesset website said, weeks after the premier vowed "war"...
ISIS seizes villages north of Aleppo city, Syria
Islamic State militants seized several villages from rival insurgents north of Aleppo city Friday, in a surprise attack that came despite intensive Russian airstrikes...
UN rights monitor on Palestinian territories quits over lack of access
The UN expert on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories resigned Monday, complaining that Israel had never granted him access to...
Security tight after Tunisia bomb blast kills at least 13
At least 13 people were killed in Tuesday's apparent suicide bombing of a Tunisian presidential guard bus in central Tunis, prompting the government to...
Iran is the top child executioner in the world
Iran is the world's most prolific executioner of children, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, accusing the Islamic republic of using torture and ill-treatment to...
Syria activists accuse regime of chemical attack
Syrian activists have accused regime forces of using a “toxic gas” during clashes in a flash-point town southwest of Damascus, saying five men were...
Pro-government forces take Yemen Island before ceasefire
Yemeni security officials say pro-government forces backed by Saudi-led airstrikes took an island in the Red Sea from Shiite militias, just hours before a...
Sudan’s PM survived assassination attempt
Sudan's prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, said he survived an assassination attempt Monday after an explosion went off near his convoy in the capital of...
