China pledged more support to its military on Sunday including strengthening maritime and air defenses amid efforts to safeguard sovereignty, but in a highly unusual move did not give spending figures for 2017 despite promises of transparency. Parliament's spokeswoman Fu Ying said on...

Somalia's prime minister says 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in a single region as a severe drought threatens millions of people. This is the first drought-related death toll announced by Somalia's government since it declared a national disaster on Tuesday. The...

A Jordanian army ambulance pulled up at a makeshift clinic a few hundred meters from a desert border camp where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are trapped in no man's land. A paramedic clambered out, carrying an emaciated boy around two years old. "Whose child is this?" he shouted...

At least 11 civilians were killed and dozens more wounded Saturday in airstrikes on a central Syrian village that activists said were likely carried out by Russia. "The raids targeted a livestock market in the village of Oqayrabat, held by ISIS in Hama province," said Rami Abdel Rahman,...