A UN body on Monday warned that the haze having caused by the forest and peatland fires in Indonesia has put 10 million children at risk from air pollution. A statement issued by UNICEF noted that small children are especially vulnerable to air pollution “because they breathe more...

Eight babies were killed when a fire ripped through a maternity hospital in eastern Algeria before dawn on Tuesday, emergency services said. "We managed to rescue 11 babies, 107 women and 28 staff" after the 3:50 am (0250 GMT) fire in the hospital in Oued Souf, 500 kilometres (300 miles)...

Algeria’s one-time kingmaker and intelligence chief went on trial on Monday along with his successor and a brother of the ousted president for “conspiring against the army”, state radio reported. Mohamed Mediene, Bachir Tertag and Said Bouteflika were arrested this spring as the...

More than 3,700 civilians have been killed in Syria since the U.S.-led Global Coalition against Daesh launched an anti-terror campaign in 2014, a U.K.-based human rights group said on Monday. In a report marking the fifth year of the U.S.-led campaign in Syria, the Syrian Human Rights...