Caught off-guard by Zika, Brazil struggles with deformed babies
Angela Rocha, a pediatrician in northeastern Brazil, measures the head of a child born with microcephaly, a tragic neurological complication linked to Zika, the...
Syrians fleeing war find unlikely refuge in Sudan
Frantically serving up Syrian-style sandwiches and platters of chicken and meat, Shawermat Anas opens onto a busy street in Khartoum. Those from Damascus might...
Around 200 staff laid off in Qatar Airways as Coronavirus cuts air travel
As Coronavirus outbreak forces the Middle East carrier slashes flights this week, Qatar Airways laid off around 200 employees; all Filipino nationals based in...
Netanyahu moves to dampen inflammatory Al-Aqsa talk
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled Tuesday to contain inflammatory rhetoric from his government over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, at the heart of a...
Inside Assad's Syria
For the past month, Russian bombs over Syria have further complicated the civil war, a conflict that has been tearing the country apart for...
Syria refugees kept behind fences amid Jordan security fears
A barbed wire-topped fence encircles a section of this bleak U.N.-run camp, isolating thousands of recent arrivals — whom Jordan considers a potential security...
Iran has the highest death toll from the virus outside of China
Iran on Monday held an online-only briefing by its Foreign Ministry trying to stem the outbreak of the new Coronavirus, as Britain began evacuating...
Coronavirus poses a new threat to Algerian protest movement
The street demonstrations in Algiers and other cities take place on Fridays and Tuesdays, and protesters are watching to see whether a global epidemic...
Russian military mission in Syria brings history full circle
Valery Anisimov and his fellow Russian servicemen were smuggled out of the Black Sea hiding below the decks of their ship, they grew their...
ISIS tightens grip on Syrian government road to Aleppo
Islamic State (ISIS) fighters were reported to have tightened their grip on a Syrian government supply route to Aleppo on Tuesday as the army...
