The devastating economic toll the coronavirus crisis is taking around the world could spark huge waves of fresh migration once borders reopen, the head of the Red Cross warned in an interview. Jagan Chapagain, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies...

Faced with deep and lasting consequences from the coronavirus pandemic, Arab countries must show more mutual support through aid, for example by creating "regional solidarity funds," the UN said Thursday. "The Arab region, home to 436 million people, initially kept transmission and...

The World Health Organization chief on Thursday rejected as false an allegation by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that he owed his position to a deal with China. Pompeo told a private meeting of MPs on Tuesday that the WHO had become a "political" body, alleging that its decisions were...

Two civilians were killed in a bomb attack in the northern Ras Alayn region near the Turkish border, local security sources said Thursday. A car bomb detonated near the local assembly building in the center of Ras al-Ayn (Kobani), a city near the Turkish border, also wounding seven...