Tripoli (AFP) - The United States and European powers pressed Libya's rival factions to set an "unconditional" ceasefire at talks restarting on Monday, as two attacks on foreign embassies were linked to Islamic State militants. Morocco is hosting a UN-backed dialogue between representatives...

United Nations  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he had asked his Syria mediator to "focus much more to re-launch a political process" in a bid to end the four-year civil war that has killed some 220,000 people and displaced millions. Mediator Staffan...

The United Nations Children's Fund has expressed concern over the use of large number of child fighters by armed groups in Yemen.   "Up to a third of combatants in armed groups in conflict-torn Yemen are children...I have been myself held up at checkpoints by children who...

n">(Reuters) -  Iran ian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday demanded that all sanctions on Iran be lifted at the same time as any final agreement with world powers on curbing Tehran's nuclear program is concluded. Khamenei, the Islamic Republic's most...