Yemen's Huthi rebels have dropped a threat to impose a tax on aid, a UN official told AFP Friday, in a significant step towards resolving a crisis that has jeopardised the world's biggest humanitarian operation. United Nations leaders and aid groups held crunch talks in Brussels on...

A total of 63 Syrian  regime troops have been 'neutralized' in northern Idlib province, Turkey's National Defense Ministry said on Friday. "According to the latest information received from various sources in Idlib region, 63 Bashar al-Assad regime elements have been neutralized",...

A Russia-backed Syrian regime offensive on the last major rebel bastion in the country's northwest has displaced more than 800,000 people since December, the United Nations said on Thursday. "Of the more than 800,000 people who have been displaced in northwest Syria from 1 December 2019 to...

Hundreds of Iraqi women of all ages flooded central Baghdad Thursday alongside male anti-government protesters, defying an order by powerful cleric Moqtada Sadr to separate the genders in the rallies. Some were veiled, others not, still more wrapped their faces in black-and-white checkered...