Washington pledged an additional $119 million for humanitarian aid in Iraq, the U.S. special envoy for the coalition against Daesh (ISIS) said at a meeting on Thursday, following the recapture of Mosul from Islamic State militants this month. At the anti-Daesh coalition meeting in...

British Prime Minister Theresa May has avoided the thorny issue of Gibraltar during talks with King Felipe VI of Spain. May's office says she did not bring up the rocky outcrop at the tip of the Iberian peninsula, which Britain has controlled for three centuries against Spain's wishes....

( The Guardian )- Ali Muhammad’s entire family are sick. In the months since his home district of Abs in northern Yemen was hit by a cholera outbreak, he has lost both parents and all six of his children have fallen ill. “Cholera is everywhere,” he said, according to a testimony...

Gaza's power distribution company says supplies to the territory's 2 million residents have dropped to unprecedented lows, with blackouts lasting for more than 24 hours. While the Palestinian enclave needs at least 400 megawatts of power a day, only 70 megawatts were available as of late...