A shipwreck off the Libyan coast has killed 20 people, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said, just hours after news of a separate incident in which at least 74 migrants died. MSF teams in northwestern coastal city of Sorman "assisted three women as the lone survivors of another shipwreck where...

One is deaf and mute, the other is paralysed from the waist down; but together, Ahmad and Bader form a duo equipped to handle life in war-torn Syria. In an ancient Damascus alley, Ahmad pushes Bader along in a wheelchair on one of their near-daily strolls. The two friends have known...

A former Syrian prime minister was a double agent who worked with Britain, France and Israel, a report published by Haaretz claims to have revealed for the first time. Jamil Mardam, who served as prime minister of Syria in the late 1930s and mid-1940s, was reportedly working with the...

Amnesty International said Thursday that scores of civilians were killed in a "massacre" in Ethiopia's Tigray region that witnesses blamed on forces backing the local ruling party. The "massacre" is the first reported incident of large-scale civilian fatalities in a week-old conflict...