The United Nations appealed Monday for a record $22.2 billion (20.9 billion euros) to provide aid in 2017 to surging numbers of people hit by conflicts and disasters around the world. The work of humanitarians "is more necessary and courageous than ever," U.N. humanitarian aid chief Stephen...

 (Zaman AlWasl)- Another key district of eastern Aleppo has effectively fallen to advancing Syrian regime forces, a rebel official said Monday, as the army and allied militia pressed an assault against the opposition-held enclave. "Karm al-Jabal and al-Shaar are considered...

A massive fire swept through a four-star hotel in the southern port city of Karachi Monday, killing at least 11 people, officials said. More than 50 people suffered injuries in the early morning blaze, which started in the hotel kitchen, police officer Tauqeer Naeem said. The exact cause...

Kafa Jawish hadn't slept in days, daydreaming of seeing her home in east Aleppo for the first time in four years, but when she arrived she found little more than rubble. The 36-year-old was among hundreds of Syrians returning to east Aleppo in recent days after the army recaptured large...