Sitting inside his bulldozer in embattled northwest Syria, civil defence worker Bassel al-Rihani quietly manoeuvres a giant shovel through red earth to dig a grave for whoever is killed next. The Idlib region of some three million people has suffered increased regime and Russian air strikes...

A Yemeni rebel missile attack on an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia wounded 26 civilians on Wednesday, drawing promises of "stern action" from the Saudi-led coalition fighting the rebels. Yemen's Huthi rebels, who have faced persistent coalition bombing since March 2015 that has...

A protest strike kept businesses shut and residents indoors in the Sudanese capital Tuesday as a top US diplomat prepared a visit to press the ruling generals to halt a bloody crackdown. Protest leaders stepped up the pressure on the generals by announcing they would soon release a list of...

Gaza's Health Ministry says that a Palestinian paramedic has succumbed to wounds inflicted by Israeli fire at a border protest a month before. The ministry said Mohammad al-Judeili, 36, died in a West Bank hospital Monday of a wound from a rubber bullet to his head. His death brings the...