The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to renew a bill that sanctions Iran and a separate piece of legislation that imposes new ones against supporters of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Both bills backed were overwhelmingly approved by the by the Foreign Affairs...

(The Guardian)- Jet fighters and helicopters bombing east Aleppo hit a children’s hospital and a blood bank on Wednesday, as medics and patients sheltered in the basement waiting for the hours-long assault to end. An ambulance driver and at least two children were among at least 20...

(Middle East Eye)- As a child, the 26-year-old lived in a camp for internally-displaced persons in Yemen, after a civil war broke out in the country in the mid-1990s. There, he saw first-hand how poor living conditions and diseases impacted families and children in particular. “There was a...

(The Guardian)- More needs to be done to ease the difficulties facing refugees if they are to reach their potential in the UK, according to the first major piece of research into the government’s resettlement scheme. Academics from the University of Sussex are close to completing a...