OPEC heavyweights Saudi Arabia and Iraq agreed on Monday on the need to extend a global cut in oil supply by nine months in an effort to prop up crude prices, removing a potential stumbling block as producing countries prepare to meet this week. Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said he...

For the first time, all parties to Syria's conflict - including the divided opposition - have agreed to take part in expert talks to help lay the foundation for a new Constitution, the U.N. special envoy for the country said Monday. Staffan de Mistura told the Security Council in a video...

A German court Monday put on trial for war crimes a suspected former Syrian rebel commander accused of having tortured civilians while fighting for a militia linked to the Free Syrian Army. The man, identified only as 42-year-old Ibrahim Al F., was arrested in April 2016 and faces life in...

Cholera has killed 315 people in Yemen in under a month, the World Health Organization has said, as another aid organisation warned Monday the outbreak could become a "full-blown epidemic". The WHO has recorded another 29,300 suspected cases of cholera in 19 provinces across the war-torn...