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Syria Kurds warn of medical shortages after UN aid vote

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria warned Tuesday that a UN vote to scrap a key entry point for cross-border aid will lead to medical shortages and expose them to regime control. "There will be no (UN) aid entering the region except from government-held areas, which will give the regime...

Fears for southern Yemen as 'landmark' peace deal crumbles

A power-sharing agreement between the Yemeni government and southern separatists is effectively defunct more than two months after it was signed, increasing fears of renewed hostilities. The deal to resolve a tussle for control in the south, dubbed a "civil war within a civil war", was...

Iraq's Sadr calls for mass protests against US presence

Firebrand Iraqi leader Moqtada Sadr called Tuesday for a "million-strong march" against the presence of US troops in Iraq, days after parliament voted for their departure following Washington's killing of an Iranian general in a Baghdad drone strike. "The skies, land and sovereignty of Iraq...