South Sudan announced that it would scale up its monitoring of the Ebola virus after an outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever was reported in recent months in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).   A simulation exercise slated for Aug. 16 is to be carried out in the...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen said an explosive-laden drone launched on Tuesday by the group in the direction of Saudi Arabia had fallen inside Yemeni territory. The Iran-aligned Houthis said earlier they had launched drone attacks on the airport of Abha in southwest...

Hundreds of firefighters battled wildfires in Greece Tuesday, with the largest burning through a thickly forested nature reserve on the island of Evia north of Athens where three villages have been evacuated. More than 220 firefighters were deployed to tackle the fire that was burning out...

Clashes between regime loyalists and insurgents in rebel-held northwest Syria killed 60 combatants Tuesday, an activist group said. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadist group led by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate, has since January controlled most of Idlib province as well as parts of...