Three Yemeni army personnel and scores of Shia Houthi militiamen and their allies were killed in Thursday clashes in Yemen’s Al-Jawf province on the first day of a UN-backed 72-hour ceasefire, according to pro-government sources. "The Houthis violated the terms of the truce, attacking...

(The Daily Star)- “When I got married I was still a kid, I used to ask my husband to bring me sweets,” 20-year-old Rima explained to the group of Syrian women sitting together in her neighbor’s home in north Lebanon. One of the other young women in the group gets up to close the heavy...

A U.N.-mediated truce to the war in Yemen went into effect a minute before midnight on Wednesday, hours after Saudi-led air strikes hit military bases in the capital Sanaa and rival militias battled near the border with the kingdom. The coalition led by Saudi Arabia said in a statement it...

(theguardian)- A fleet of Russian warships is heading towards the Mediterranean on a route past the British Isles in what is believed to be the country’s largest naval deployment since the cold war. An MoD spokesman said: “When these ships near our waters we will man-mark them every step...