Conflict-torn Yemen "is falling off a cliff" and will face the worst famine the world has seen for decades unless donors, and especially its Gulf neighbors, contribute generously to this year’s U.N. humanitarian appeal for $3.85 billion, the U.N. humanitarian chief warned Wednesday. Mark...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has prohibited the travel of ambassadors and heads of diplomatic missions outside the capital Kinshasa without prior authorization from authorities. President Felix Tshisekedi made the decision late on Tuesday at the presidential palace during a...

Realizing that even after a decade of popular uprising Libya continues to remain in chaos, an expert on the region urged for granting a social space to the traumatized country to bring divided institutions together. But the expert also lamented that geopolitical rivalries have brought new...

Some fled after the US-led invasion, others during sectarian bloodshed and more following militant attacks. Iraq's last two violent decades have hollowed out its Christian community which dates back two millennia. After first settling in the fertile plains of Nineveh province before heading...