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Both sides in Ukraine conflict condemned over civilian deaths

The United Nations human rights office has condemned both sides fighting in Ukraine for killing civilians in indiscriminate shelling. The report released by the UN's...

3.6 million Iraqi children ‘at serious risk of harm’

The UN children's fund has warned that 3.6 million Iraqi children are at "serious risk" of death, injury, sexual violence, abduction and recruitment into...

UN: World must act to stop children dying

The United Nations' children's agency has warned that 69 million under-fives will die from preventable causes between now and 2030 unless countries speed up...

EU predicts three million more migrants by the end of 2016

The European Union has predicted that three million more migrants could arrive in the 28-nation bloc by the end of next year. More than 700,000...

US escalates involvement in Syria amid talks on Assad future

The United States escalated its fight against the Islamic State in Syria, pledging the first open deployment of military boots on the ground. The move...

Russia targeting ‘well known groups’ and not just Islamic State with Syria airstrikes

Russia’s airstrikes in Syria are targeting other terrorist groups as well as Islamic State militants, according to a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia...

France investigates alleged crimes against humanity by Bashar Assad

Paris prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into French government accusations that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government has committed crimes against humanity. France is trying...

Russian politicians give Putin go-ahead for troops in Syria

The upper chamber of the Russian parliament has voted unanimously to let President Vladimir Putin send Russian troops to Syria. The Federation Council discussed Mr...

Saudi airstrikes hit Yemen wedding party, killing 28 people

Two airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemen’s Shiite rebels have struck a wedding party, killing 28 people and wounding dozens. Security officials say the...

Ukraine bars three BBC journalists from entering country

Ukraine has barred dozens of reporters including three BBC journalists from entering the country as an unspecified security threat. The British correspondents are Steve...

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