At least 16 people have died amid a cholera outbreak in parts of the troubled Central African Republic (CAR), local authorities and international humanitarian groups said Friday. The United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said in a statement that the...

Rebel gains which have broken a Syrian government siege in the city of Aleppo will strengthen the opposition's hand should a new round of peace talks go ahead, an opposition negotiator told Reuters. Previous rounds collapsed earlier this year when the opposition objected to the forces of...

Libyan forces engaged in renewed clashes with Islamic State militants in Sirte on Thursday, a day after capturing a convention complex that had been a symbol of the militant group's authority in the city. Forces aligned with Libya's U.N.-backed government seized the Ouagadougou convention...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance forces recaptured a ground lost to regime forces early Thursday in the battleground city of Aleppo, activists said. Regime forces backed by allied militias launched counter attack to repel opposition forces from al-Ramouseh and a strategic military...