An international aid organization is warning that Yemen's cholera epidemic, the world's worst since Haiti's 2011 outbreak, is likely to worsen in the rainy season. The UK-based OXFAM group said Friday cholera in Yemen is now "the largest ever recorded in any country in a single year." The...

The jihadists may have been ousted from their Iraqi hometown of Mosul but many Christians like Haitham Behnam refuse to go back and trade in the stability of their new lives. "There's no security, no protection for Christians back there," said the former resident of the largest city in...

Israel has shifted from low-key humanitarian aid for Syrian civil war victims into a hearts-and-minds campaign billed as fostering new friends across a frontier that has been hostile for decades. Under a year-old expanded relief project disclosed to media this week, groups of Syrians have...

Iraqi forces on Thursday regained control over Imam Gharbi, a village south of Mosul, from Daesh (ISIS) militants who had seized it as their defense of their stronghold in the city crumbled, Iraqi police said. The action formed part of the next phase of the U.S.-backed government's campaign...