The UN children’s agency has warned that a planned Israeli ground invasion of southern Gaza’s Rafah would be a catastrophe.  In an article in the British daily, The Guardian, UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder said that he saw "new graveyards fill with children" in the blockaded Strip....

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has  repatriated hundreds more of its citizens  linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria, Iraqi and Syrian officials said Monday. Ali Jahangir, a spokesman for Iraq’s Ministry of Migration and Displaced, said the nearly...

At least 22 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, local media reported early Monday. Five Palestinians, including women and children, lost their lives in an Israeli bombing targeting a house belonging to a family in western Gaza City, the official...

The war in Gaza continues to cast a dark shadow over the wider Middle East region, in particular Syria where a series of strikes and attacks are exacerbating an already dire humanitarian situation, the UN Special Envoy for the country said on Thursday. Briefing ambassadors on the Security...