The French capital's city council voted Monday in favor of banning cars along the right bank of the Seine River as part of an effort to reduce air pollution. Mayor Anne Hidalgo welcomed the “historic decision” as “the end of an urban motorway and the taking back of the Seine". A...

A policeman and an Al-Qaeda leader were both killed in clashes in Yemen’s southern Abyan province, according to a statement issued Monday by police in Aden, which currently serves as the country’s provisional capital. "Security forces raided the village of Lodar [in Abyan] where they...

Residents of Syria's battered city of Aleppo faced worsening food and medical shortages Monday as Syrian and Russian warplanes again pounded rebel-held areas in defiance of international concern. A fresh wave of intensive air strikes hit the city's opposition-controlled east from dawn on...

Eight soldiers and 25 Boko Haram fighters were killed in two separate encounters in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state on Sunday as government troops intensified operations to clear the insurgency from the region, according to the military. In the first incident, army spokesman Sani Usman...