A night-time fire in a shopping centre in the Syrian capital Damascus has killed at least 11 people, the interior ministry said, in one of the deadliest blazes in recent years. Many of those killed on Tuesday were security guards or staff who were on duty overnight in the six-storey...

GENEVA -- The U.N. refugee agency says that about 660,000 people have fled Ukraine for neighboring countries since the Russian invasion began. The number, given on Tuesday, was up from a count of more than 500,000 a day earlier. Shabia Mantoo, a spokeswoman for the U.N. High...

The Al-Otaiba massacre marked its eight anniversary in February that left 175 people dead in the eastern enclave of the Syrian capital, while trying to escape starvation and the indiscriminate killing by the Syrian regime forces and allied militias. The ambush took place in 2014, after...

The head of the U.N. food agency has warned that 13 million Yemenis are headed for starvation due to a protracted civil conflict and a lack of funding for humanitarian aid. In an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, David Beasley said that Yemen was “in a very bad situation”...