Lawyers and doctors joined protests against Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Thursday, demanding to know who had signed off on a medical certificate for the hospitalized 82-year-old leader declaring him fit to run for his fifth term. In a statement read by the telecommunications...

In Iraq, medicine is a matter of life or death -- not just for patients, but for doctors facing threats by vengeful relatives and emigrating en masse. Shaymaa al-Kamali, a family physician in Baghdad, said her problems began when she barred a patient's father from staying in the hospital...

A propaganda train displaying weapons and military vehicles that the Russian military seized in Syria is now en route from Moscow to the far eastern port city of Vladivostok. Many of the weapons on show in the train's carriages were made in the U.S., France, Israel and Italy....

Armenia has sent a team of experts to Syria on a Russia-backed mission to help clear mines and provide medical assistance, the Armenian Defense Ministry said Saturday. The ministry's spokesman, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, said the team of 83 includes de-mining experts, medical personnel and...