The European Union extended its sanctions on Syria on Monday, putting 17 government ministers and the country's central bank chief under travel bans and asset freezes as part of its strategy to punish President Bashar Assad. "This decision brings to 234 the total number of persons subject to...

Yemen is at risk of a significant cholera outbreak with the number of suspected cases doubling within 12 days to over 4,000, the World Health Organization said. The outbreak in a country ravaged by a 20-month war that has killed thousands was declared by Yemen's Health Ministry on Oct. 6. By...

(The Daily Star)- Airstrikes destroyed the only hospital in the rebel-held town of Atareb in the countryside west of Aleppo Monday, wounding several members of the medical staff, war activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war activist group, said warplanes...

Islamic State is using wooden replicas of tanks and Humvees in a bid to subvert an air campaign by the U.S.-led military coalition supporting Iraqi forces in the Mosul operations, even using bearded mannequins to simulate jihadist fighters. The Iraqi army captured a handful of the mockups...