Left neglected and suffering, millions of Yemenis with disabilities are taking the brunt of the country's 5-year conflict, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. In a report marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the London-based rights group said 4.5 million people...

 North Korea said on Tuesday the United States was trying to drag out denuclearization talks ahead of the U.S. presidential election next year and issued a veiled threat to Washington to soften its demands, state media reported. Ri Thae Song, North Korea’s vice foreign minister in...

The Syrian pound hit a record low Monday amid the country’s grinding civil war, now in its ninth year, and as a financial and political crisis roils neighboring Lebanon, Syria’s economic lung. When Syria’s conflict erupted in March 2011, a dollar was valued at 47 pounds. On Monday, it...

Mohammed Akki left his home in Morocco’s Middle Atlas mountains to seek regular work and a better life in the town of Azrou, but he still lives on the margins in a country enjoying an investment boom. Every morning, Akki walks miles into Azrou, where he may or may not find work as a day...