U.N. humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien described the cholera outbreak in Yemen, which is fast approaching 300,000 cases, as a "man-made catastrophe" caused by the warring sides in the country's civil war and their international backers. The number of suspected cases of the disease, which is...

President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he saw no legitimate successor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and France no longer considered his departure a pre-condition to resolving the six-year-old conflict. He said Assad was an enemy of the Syrian people, but not of France and that...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday she was prepared to consider new French President Emmanuel Macron's proposals for a shake-up of the eurozone. Speaking to business leaders in Berlin, Merkel acknowledged that the "economic cohesion of the eurozone member states leaves something to...

(Eqtsad)- Siege and drought of groundwater wells and the lack of rain affected the winter grain crop in the northern besieged Homs countryside. Some agricultural engineers have expected a drop in grain to about a quarter of last year's level and 10 percent higher than in 2011. Agricultural...