NATO will receive its second U.S.-made Global Hawk drone on Thursday and aims to have all five unmanned aircraft of its $1.5 billion surveillance system operational in 2022, alliance officials said on Tuesday. After years of delays, the drone system, which NATO says will be the world’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 14 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in deadly air strikes on the northern province of Idlib, Civil Defence agency said Tuesday. The rescuing group said the death toll is expected to rise as regime helicopters dropped dozens of barrel bombs on...

The United Nations has no choice but to keep shipping humanitarian aid across Syria's borders and civil war front lines, according to a report by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, which ran into contrary views from Russia. Security Council members are debating the renewal of the...

A global refugee summit opens in Geneva Tuesday amid calls for concrete actions to help a surging number of displaced people, and for wealthy nations to shoulder their share of the burden. The Global Refugee Forum begins exactly a year after the UN General Assembly adopted a framework aimed...