(Reuters) - As many as 700 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast overnight, in one of the worst disasters seen in the Mediterranean migrant crisis, officials said on Sunday. Twenty eight people were rescued in the incident, which happened in...

Syrian regime warplanes have continued the fiercest aerial campaign in months on rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo, carrying out more than ten raids on Monday, as death toll rose to 60 people in three days. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said Bashar al-Assad's  warplanes have...

(Reuters) - Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi appointed his former prime minister as vice president on Sunday, a move apparently aimed at improving the chances of a peaceful settlement to the civil war that forced Hadi to flee to  Saudi Arabia . "The president issued an...

(Reuters) - Italian ships have picked up almost 700 migrants in seven inflatable boats and further rescue operations are underway as calm seas favored departures from  Libya  for the Italian coast, the coast guard said on Sunday. Italian navy and coast guard vessels and one...