Famine is imminent in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region and in the country's north, the U.N. humanitarian chief said, warning there's a risk that hundreds of thousands of people or more will die. Mark Lowcock said the economy has been destroyed along with businesses, crops and...

Five Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga troops were killed Saturday in a clash with fighters of Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a senior Iraqi Kurdish official said. The PKK maintains rear-bases in northern Iraq which have come under renewed assault by Turkish forces since April....

For the past four months, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen has made several calls on Houthi rebels to end their offensive on the city of Marib, but things have yet to change. In his latest press conference on May 31 in the capital, Sana'a, Martin Griffiths again...

Iran's election watchdog the Guardian Council said on Friday that it may reconsider the barring of candidates from this month's presidential election after the Supreme Leader said some of them had been wronged. "The orders of the Supreme Leader are final and his ruling must be obeyed. The...