Parked in a hangar in downtown Tripoli, some 35 buses awaited this week's launch of a new urban public transport scheme -- the first in the Libyan capital in three decades. Imported from China, the brand new vehicles will make their first trips in the coming days, across a city that for six...

The week-old Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria has forced all international non-governmental organisations to leave the area, a statement from the Kurdish authorities said Tuesday. "The humanitarian plight of the displaced in areas targeted by the aggression has worsened with all...

A third of the world's nearly 700 million children under five years old are undernourished or overweight and face lifelong health problems as a consequence, according to a grim UN assessment of childhood nutrition released Tuesday. "If children eat poorly, they live poorly," said UNICEF...

The Syrian regime army entered the town of Manbij in northern Syria on Monday, Syrian state-run TV and news agency said. On Monday, Russian-backed Syrian government forces wasted no time in taking advantage of an abrupt U.S. retreat from Syria after the Turkish incursion, deploying...