The United Nations says it has received “alarming messages” from its staff in Idlib, Syria, as regime attacks continue unabated in the country’s northwest. “There are no safe spaces in Idlib; bombs are falling anywhere and everywhere. Even those fleeing the frontlines are not safe...

At least one student was killed and seven others injured in a rocket attack on Afrin city in northern Aleppo province by the Kurdish People's Protection Units, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. The Kurdish militia has targeted two schools and a mosque in Afrin’s city center...

Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked a village in northern Cameroon early Tuesday, torching homes and killing two civilians just days before legislative and municipal elections, security sources said. "Boko Haram made an incursion a little before 2:00am in Mozogo village," in the...

The world will see a 60% increase in cancer cases over the next two decades if current trends continue, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. “The greatest increase [an estimated 81%] in new cases will occur in low- and middle-income countries where survival rates are currently...