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