The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors with the world body's envoy for Yemen on Wednesday in an attempt to salvage a stalled truce deal seen as crucial to diplomatic efforts to end the war. Yemen's government and its Saudi and Emirati allies agreed in talks with Huthi...

Bashar al-Assad has won his war for political survival but as Syria's conflict enters its ninth year, his country is fractured, cash-strapped, and prey to both friend and foe. The civil war reaches its eighth anniversary this month with more than 360,000 people killed, millions more...

French President Emmanuel Macron said he “salutes” Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s decision not to seek another term as president of Algeria and called for a “transition of a reasonable length.” Macron, who has faced months of protests back home from the Yellow Vests movement, also said on...

Hunkered near one of Syria’s hottest front lines for seven years, the eastern Ghouta district of Ein Terma sustained more damage than most areas in the conflict. Its markets are now full and children throng the streets where shells were falling a year ago. But for the people who have...