Three gunmen opened fire at police near Jerusalem's holiest site on Friday, wounding three Israelis, two of them critically, before the attackers were killed by security forces, Israeli police said. The gunmen arrived at the sacred site, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as...

Human Rights Watch Thursday condemned videos circulating on social media purportedly showing Iraqi forces killing and beating men suspected of being Daesh (ISIS) fighters in Mosul. Two videos seen by the Associated Press were posted to Facebook earlier this week, a day after Iraqi Prime Minister...

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...

( 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...