South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar was sworn in as first vice president on Saturday, formally rejoining the government in the latest bid to bring peace to a nation ravaged by war. President Salva Kiir hailed the "official ending of war" and said peace was now "irreversible" as the new...

The United Nations warned Friday that fighting in northwest Syria could "end in a bloodbath" and called again for a ceasefire, while Moscow denied reports of a mass flight of civilians from a Russian-led Syrian government offensive. Syrian troops backed by Russian air power have been...

The 34-year-old and her newborn girl are being treated in one of the last functioning hospitals in the Syrian city of Idlib. Seventy hospitals have been bombed out of action, and the location of this hospital is being kept secret for fear it will be targeted next. Doctors have...

An estimated 170,000 of the 900,000 civilians forced from their homes in a massive wave of displacement in northwestern Syria are living out in the open, the UN said Thursday. The largest displacement since the civil war in Syria broke out nearly nine years ago comes in the thick of winter,...