(Foreign Policy)- Its title is prosaic and its content dry, but the stark statistics in the U.N.’s annual summary of relief programs tell the story of Syria’s humanitarian nightmare. This is a country on life support: 13.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, Syrians...

The head of the Saudi-backed Syrian opposition said Thursday his group would not attend UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva until an agreement was reached on aid entering besieged towns. "The opposition is prepared to go to Geneva if these measures are taken," Riad Hijab, coordinator of the High...

ISIS claimed responsibility Thursday for a bomb attack outside the residence of Yemeni President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi which killed seven people. In a statement online, the militant group said the attack was carried out by a suicide car bomber it identified as Abu Hanifa al-Hollandi,...

The powerful Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its local allies have drawn up plans for a major attack to seize the final stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border held by ISIS fighters, a YPG source familiar with the plan said Thursday. Such an offensive could deprive ISIS fighters of a logistical...