The United States reported its millionth coronavirus case as hard-hit European countries took tentative steps towards lifting lockdowns, with masks mandatory in all German shops from Wednesday. Excitement over a move towards normality in many places was tempered by fear of new outbreaks and...

Two months after the US and the Taliban signed a deal Washington heralded as the way to end Afghanistan's war, violence is spiralling out of control and experts say a fragile peace process risks collapse. Dozens of Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters have been dying almost daily...

A Syrian state-produced television series has drawn fire from activists and Syrian opposition figures, for using as a prop a photograph of a young woman believed to have been tortured and killed by Syrian regime security forces. The period of Ramadan is usually the peak time for TV...

There is a “very real probability” the new coronavirus is circulating in Yemen, the United Nations said on Tuesday, warning that an aid funding shortfall would compromise efforts to combat the virus in one of the most vulnerable countries. The war-damaged nation, whose population has...