The war in Yemen can be stopped because the warring sides still support a U.N. peace deal brokered in Stockholm last December, U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday. The four-year war between the Iran-aligned Houthi movement and a Saudi-backed coalition supporting the Yemeni...

More than 11,000 foreign women and children related to Isis suspects are being held in “appalling” and “deadly conditions” in a locked desert camp in northeast Syria, a leading human rights organisation has warned. Human Rights Watch found overflowing latrines, sewage seeping into...

Spain's caretaker prime minister has failed on the first of two opportunities this week to win the endorsement of the national Parliament to form a government. Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez fell short of the absolute majority of 176 votes of the 350-member lower house needed to win...

Boris Johnson, the ebullient Brexiteer who has promised to lead Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal by Halloween, will replace Theresa May as prime minister after winning the leadership of the Conservative Party Tuesday. His victory catapults the United Kingdom towards...