Hunger is expected to rise in 23 global hotspots in the next three months with the highest alerts for “catastrophic” situations in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, southern Madagascar, Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria, two U.N. agencies warned Friday. The Food and Agriculture...

When the UN Security Council agreed to extend a cross-border humanitarian operation into Syria earlier this month, concerns were raised over the wording of the resolution as some considered it ambiguous. Resolution 2585 stated the mandate for the Bab Al-Hawa crossing on the Syria-Turkey...

Eight civilians including several children were among 23 people killed Thursday in the fiercest clashes to rock Syria’s Daraa province since it was captured by the regime, a war monitor said. Artillery shelling by regime forces on the village of Al-Yadudah, northwest of Daraa city, killed...

Updates:    At least 18 civilians, including 4 children, were killed in regime bombing, local activists said Thursday. - At least 47 regime troops have been killed in a fresh death toll.   - Rebels took control of the intelligence and army checkpoints...