Women fighters danced to Kurdish songs in a village in northern Syria on Wednesday after completing their military training to join the battle against Daesh (ISIS). The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of local militias supported by a U.S.-led coalition, had given the 210 women a...

In a humid room in the besieged Syrian town of Douma, Abu Nabil inspects the pearly white mushrooms sprouting from white sacks hanging from a ceiling. The oyster mushrooms poking out from holes in the bags are now a substitute for meat in the rebel stronghold, where a government blockade has...

Yemen's spiralling health crisis has forced organisations treating war-wounded to shift their focus to diseases "nobody should die of," the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday. In an interview with AFP in Beirut, the head of the ICRC's Yemen delegation, Alexandre Faite,...

Three rebels and one civilian were killed in violence in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, police said, two days after soldiers killed five fighters along the de-facto border with Pakistan. Inspector general of police Muneer Ahmed Khan said soldiers and police cordoned off a residential area...