Five people have been killed and dozens wounded in Yemen's third city of Taez, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Tuesday after clashes erupted between various pro-government factions. "Heavy fighting has once again resumed inside Taez," a city just inland from the Red Sea port of Mokha,...

A hospitalized Palestinian teen said Monday he was shot in his thighs by Israeli soldiers while he was handcuffed and blindfolded - the latest in what a leading rights group portrayed as a series of unjustified shootings of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers. The military said it was...

An aid ship belonging to a German humanitarian group, is still stranded in the Mediterranean and denied safe port from, the organization’s spokeswoman said on Thursday. Denied docking rights from Malta, the Alan Kurdi -- named after a young Syrian boy drowned while trying to make it to...

Sudanese security forces killed at least five protesters over the weekend during what organizers said were some of the largest demonstrations in a nearly four-month campaign to drive President Omar al-Bashir from power. The protests, which began in December, have swelled since last week's...