The United Nations said on Tuesday it will need a total of $8 billion this year to provide life-saving assistance to millions of Syrians inside their shattered homeland and to refugees and their host communities in neighboring countries. The first part, a $4.63 billion appeal for 5 million...

Thousands of Iraqi children are heading back to school in east Mosul after weeks of fighting and more than two years of extremist rule, the U.N. children's fund UNICEF said Tuesday. Iraqi forces launched a massive operation to recapture Mosul from ISIS 100 days ago and have ousted the...

Russia, Turkey and Iran on Tuesday were working on a statement to reaffirm a fragile ceasefire between Syrian warring parties that could agree to establishing a mechanism to observe its compliance and pave the way for a U.N.-led peace settlement. Delegations from the Syrian government...

A 21-year-old man arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning an Islamist attack has admitted links to a man being held by the Austrian police for the same reason, German investigators said on Monday. Police in Vienna said they would remain on high alert until they could rule out that...