Three people have died of suspected diphtheria in conflict-hit Yemen, doctors said on Wednesday, as the World Health Organisation and International Committee of the Red Cross warned the disease was spreading. "Currently, there is an increase in diphtheria cases, due to the poor...

Millions of children in war-weary Syria continue to be deprived of their most basic rights, a refugee rights body said. "Children are the ones mostly affected by this war. Because they are perhaps the most needy and vulnerable beings on the earth", International Refugee Rights...

Fifteen people were killed and five more injured when a stampede broke out in a southwestern Moroccan town on Sunday as food aid was being distributed in a market, the Interior Ministry said. A hospital source put the death toll at 18, adding that most victims were women who had been...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Shelling by the Syrian regime on the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus on Saturday killed at least 10 civilians, topping the death toll to 62 in 5 days of heavy bombing, local activists said. Saturday’s airstrikes have targeted Hazzeh and Madyara...