Threats, interference and aid deliveries in jeopardy -- relief workers say jihadists are adding to the huge challenges they face in violence-plagued northwest Syria where a fragile ceasefire is at risk. The Idlib region, controlled by a former Al-Qaeda affiliate, is one of the last areas of...

Rockets from Gaza killed three people in an Israeli city while five Palestinian militants died on Sunday in surging cross-border fighting that included a return by Israel to singling out enemy commanders for attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the military to...

Russian air strikes on an underground hospital in the jihadist-held Syrian province of Idlib on Sunday forced the closure of the facility, a medical organisation and war monitor said. The hospital on the outskirts of Hass, in the south of Idlib province, was hit by air strikes, in an attack...

A Sudanese protester has died from injuries suffered in clashes between security forces and demonstrators from a camp for displaced people in conflict-wracked Darfur, medics said Sunday. Violence erupted Saturday when crowds of protesters from camp Attash clashed with soldiers and...