(Al Jazeera)- The UN's West Africa envoy says Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh must step down when his mandate ends in January and would be "strongly sanctioned" if he sought to remain in power. Long-ruling Jammeh lost the election to little-known businessman Adama Barrow on December 1 and...

The top U.S. general leading the fight against ISIS says the militants got control of military equipment and weapons, possibly including air defense equipment, when they recaptured the Syrian town of Palmyra. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend says Russian forces and the Syrian government took their...

Up to a thousand people gathered Wednesday in Sarajevo - the Bosnian city that survived a brutal 44-month siege during the Balkan wars of the 1990s - to rally against the carnage in Syria. Representatives of Bosnia's Muslim, Catholic, Orthodox Christian and Jewish communities said they felt...

Syria's regime forces and their allies have almost certainly violated international law and probably committed war crimes by the latest bombardment of civilians hoping to be evacuated from eastern Aleppo, the U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday. "The Syrian Government has a clear...