Syria sanctions indirectly hit children's cancer treatment
Six years of conflict have brought the Syrian health service, once one of the best in the Middle East, close to collapse
No famine in Yemen but over half on the brink -U.N.-backed report
Yemen is one of four current famine or near-famine situations, along with South Sudan, northeast Nigeria and Somalia, with more than 20 million people at risk of starvation in the next six months
INTERVIEW - Syria's unaccompanied children biggest victims of war -UNICEF
In 2016 every six hours a child dying or severely injured in Syria, UNICEF says
Afghanistan holds 24 amid questions over possible hospital insider attack
Afghan authorities are investigating whether a major attack on a military hospital last week which killed at least 50 people was an insider job.
Heavy fighting as Iraqi forces set sights on Mosul's Grand Mosque
Prime minister says battle to drive Islamic State from its last urban stronghold in Iraq is reaching its final stages.
ANALYSIS - After 6 years, Assad now secure but his country carved up as war thunders on
During five years of negotiations the sticking point has been whether Assad would go. Now, the starting point is that he will stay.
Study shows healthcare in Syria now a target of war
A key feature of the "weaponisation" of healthcare is repeated targeting of medical facilities with aim of shutting them down to deny people access to care
Madagascar vanilla producers say cyclone damaged 30 pct of crop
Cyclone Enawo tore through the East African island in early March, killing 78 people, displacing nearly 250,000 and wounding 250
Syria a "torture-chamber", U.N. says in call to free detainees
"Ensuring accountability, establishing the truth and providing reparations must happen if the Syrian people are ever to find reconciliation and peace. This cannot be negotiable"