The United Nations has begun removing containers holding more than 7,000 weapons from demobilization zones where the arms were handed over by former fighters for Colombia's largest rebel group who are beginning life as civilians under a peace agreement. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos...

Preparations began on Monday for the transfer of militants and their relatives from Lebanon's border region to Syria in exchange for Hezbollah prisoners, a Hezbollah media unit said. As part of a local ceasefire between Hezbollah and Nusra Front jihadists that took effect last week, about...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) is still holding tens of families from al-Shadadi and Merkada towns in the Qana refugee camp near al-Hasakah Dam amid harsh humanitarian conditions, activists say. Aactivist Mohammed al-Khader said that Qana Camp administration...

Thousands of children have been separated from their parents in the nine-month battle for Mosul and the preceding years of Islamic State rule in northern Iraq - some found wandering alone and afraid among the rubble, others joining the refugee exodus from the pulverized city. In some cases...