World powers failed Tuesday to set a date for a long-delayed Syria peace conference, as deep divisions persisted between rival camps over the conditions for their participation. "We were hoping that we'd be in a position to announce a date today, unfortunately we're not," UN-Arab...

A Kurdish mayor on hunger strike in Turkey to protest the building of a barrier on the border with Syria accused Ankara on Tuesday of putting up a "wall of shame". Ayse Gokkan of the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party (BDP), who has been on hunger strike for seven days, says the wall...

Paying for medicines and medical treatment has become one of the most difficult issues that Syrians face since the crisis began. The local market has been severely affected and many medicines have become prohibitively expensive as most of the pharmaceutical factories have been either...

A giant rat killed a one-year-old baby in Western Yemen after eating parts of his body, leaving the mother in nervous breakdown and the town in relentless hunt for the rodent, Yemeni press reported on Tuesday. The baby was laying at a clay hut in al-Hadith district in Western Yemen...