CAIRO (AP) — The deal struck in Sudan to reinstate the prime minister following a military coup is imperfect but has saved the country from sliding into civil strife, the U.N. envoy to Sudan said on Friday. Special Envoy Volker Perthes was speaking of the agreement between Sudan's military...

A Syrian maternity hospital in Raqqa may close after the donor agency backing it said it was pulling out, threatening tens of thousands of impoverished women and children's access to healthcare. The Maternity, Gynaecology and Children's Hospital administration were told that the EU Civil...

The repatriation of a Norwegian orphan from a camp in North-East Syria this week should shame other governments into doing more to find and bring home their children before another winter sets in, Save the Children said. Save the Children hoped the latest example of identifying and...

 Pope Francis is arranging to transfer a number of migrants to Italy from the east Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus, where he is opening a three-day visit next week, a Cypriot government official said on Thursday. Government spokesman Marios Pelekanos told The Associated Press...