Intense clashes broke out in Syria's Daraa on Monday between government forces and insurgents with both sides shelling parts of the southern city that has been declared a safe zone under a recent Russia-sponsored deal, opposition activists and state media said. Daraa, the site where...

Cholera has killed 315 people in Yemen in under a month, the World Health Organization has said, as another aid organisation warned Monday the outbreak could become a "full-blown epidemic". The WHO has recorded another 29,300 suspected cases of cholera in 19 provinces across the war-torn...

 Security forces Monday fired tear gas at protesters as they tried to storm a gas and oil installation in southern Tunisia, local radio stations said. Residents have been camping outside the El Kamour gas and oil pumping station in the Tataouine region for around a month to demand they...

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have pledged $100 million to a women's business fund supported by Ivanka Trump, daughter of the president who Monday wound up a visit to Riyadh. World Bank president Jim Yong Kim announced the donation from both oil-rich Gulf states Sunday, during a...