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Gemma Connell, the leader of a UN humanitarian team deployed in Gaza for several weeks, described on Monday the…

Thousands of people demonstrated waving Palestinian flags in front of the Canadian Parliament building in Ottawa,…

Experts said civilians were being killed in Gaza even more rapidly than in the bloodiest moments of US-led attacks…

France has issued an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, alleging the use of illegal…

The ongoing hostilities along the Lebanese Israeli border have intensified over the weeks, leading to an increase…

At least 235 worshippers have been killed by gunmen who attacked a mosque affiliated with Sufi groups in…

Regime forces Friday broke into the eastern town of Mayadeen, one of the Islamic State (IS) militant group's last…

Syria's war killed at least 3,000 people including 955 civilians in September, the deadliest month of the conflict…

Egypt's Al-Azhar has strongly condemned a terror attack in Barcelona on Thursday that killed and injured a number…

Airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State killed at least 29 civilians including 14 children in 24…

The Philippines military said Islamist militants who had holed up in a primary school in the south early on…

Islamic State militants in Raqqa are passing themselves off as civilians to try to avoid intensifying air strikes…

Three Afghan civilians from one family were killed early on Monday morning when American troops opened fire after…

Syria is unlikely to see a major "Marshall Plan" for reconstruction as peace remains difficult despite hundreds of…

Islamic State (IS) militants are planting bombs near front doors in Mosul to prevent civilians leaving, a federal…

The U.S-led coalition on Tuesday denied its warplanes bombed a Syrian border town in the Islamic held eastern…

Iraqi forces pushed further into Mosul from the north on the second day of a new push to speed up the nearly…

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday pushed for "de-escalation zones" in Syria, saying both Russia and Turkey…

Fighting in the South Sudan town of Pajok sent over 6,000 people fleeing this week, with refugees recounting the…

Russia defended its ally Damascus on Wednesday against international outcry over a suspected chemical attack that…

Iraqi forces have taken a strategically important town close to western Mosul on the third day of their renewed…

Iraqi government forces have resumed their push towards western Mosul, the last major stronghold of so-called…

U.S. Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump's nomination for attorney general, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions,…

U.S. military says it believes civilians were among the casualties when US commandos raided an al-Qaeda stronghold…

A car bomb in eastern Baghdad claimed by Islamic State killed six civilians and wounded 15 on Thursday, police and…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appeared close to victory in Aleppo on Wednesday, but United Nations and rebel…

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday his administration would build "safe zones" to try to help…

U.S. President Barack Obama has strongly suggested on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin…

Syrian rebels in besieged eastern Aleppo called on Wednesday for an immediate five-day ceasefire and the…

The Indian army has vowed to avenge the killing of three of its soldiers in the disputed Kashmir region as tensions…

Eight civilians have been killed and five others wounded in a suicide bomb attack in a town south-west of the Iraqi…

Iraqi government forces killed and tortured civilians south of Mosul, rights groups said on Thursday, the first…

Syrian rebels and civilians showed no sign of leaving the besieged opposition-held sector of Aleppo on Friday,…

Three policemen and three civilians were injured on Sunday after a car bomb detonated in North Sinai’s Al-Arish,…

A spokeswoman for the Office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that over 900 people from Mosul had…

Six Turkish soldiers were killed and seven people, including civilians, wounded on Sunday when a car bomb…

A tank rolls through five lanes of deadlocked traffic towards the Bosphorus Bridge, crushing cars. A military…

At least 82 people including 58 civilians were killed in Russian and regime air strikes on an Islamic State…

The Egyptian foreign ministry condemned Friday the recent shelling in several Syrian areas which have claimed the…

Suspected Russian air strikes killed at least 10 civilians Saturday in a village held by the Islamic State (ISIS)…