Boko Haram militants launched a daring raid on the military in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri overnight, prompting a 24-hour curfew that shut airspace and cut off roads, the army, state government and eyewitnesses said. Local residents said that hundreds of heavily armed...
The death toll in Syria's conflict has risen to at least 125,835, more than a third of them civilians, but the real figure is probably much higher, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday. The pro-opposition monitoring group also appealed to U.N....
Winter is fast approaching in Iraq’s Kurdistan and as heavy rain threatens to exacerbate an already dire situation for the region’s 235,000 Syrian Kurdish refugees, local organizations are fighting a battle against time in an attempt to soften the cold blow of winter. November...