A dispute over control of biometric data between the World Food Programme and Yemen’s Houthi group is straining humanitarian efforts and threatens to disrupt aid distribution in a country already on the brink of famine. In an unusually strong statement the U.N. agency, which feeds more...

Aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Tuesday slammed the conditions in migrant detention centers in Libya where would-be refugees are malnourished and cooped up with rampant health problems. "These people frequently eat just noodles, without any added protein, often for months, in...

France’s weapons sales to Saudi Arabia rose 50 pct in 2018 despite the government calling for an end to the “dirty war” in Yemen, figures released on Tuesday showed. An annual government report showed that total arms sales rose 30 percent to 9.1 billion euros in 2018, driven by a...

Fighters have set fire to thousands of acres of wheat and other crops in northwest Syria in a campaign that has turned food supplies in a "weapon of war" and forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee, the United Nations said Tuesday. Satellite images released by campaigners last...