Beyond humanitarian hand-outs: sowing the seeds of food security in Syria
Is it possible in the Syria conflict to move away from immediate humanitarian assistance and into longer-term food security?
No Syrian "Marshall Plan" but rather protracted war - Red Cross
Up to 8 million people remain displaced in Syria, and a maximum of 500,000 have returned to Aleppo and other areas
Trump dismays, angers allies by abandoning global climate pact
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called the decision "one of the worst policy moves made in the 21st century"
'Historic mistake' by Trump - but climate action will go on, experts say
"Donald Trump has made a historic mistake which our grandchildren will look back on with stunned dismay"
Former Yazidi sex slave makes tearful return to her Iraqi village
Nadia Murad never thought she would return to Kocho, an agricultural village once home to about 2,000 Yazidis, of whom about half were killed in the 2014 attacks or are missing
Dozens of fleeing civilians killed, wounded by Islamic State mortar fire in Mosul
Several dozen other civilians managed to reach government-held lines unhurt, using the same exit route
Fleeing Raqqa, 10,000 refugees mass at camp north of Syrian city - MSF
Residents take their chances against minefields and hostile fighters rather than risk death in a major battle expected to begin soon
New U.S. instability, old MidEast quagmire - annual peace index
Political stability in the U.S. dropped, while many countries in the Middle East and North Africa became more peaceful, including Morocco and Iran
Trump to announce decision on global climate deal on Thursday
President Donald Trump will follow through on a campaign pledge to pull the United States out of a global pact to fight climate change, a source briefed on the decision told Reuters
Crisis? What crisis? World ignores displaced Africans - aid agency
"The fact that most of these people do not turn up at our doorsteps gives us no right to close our eyes to their suffering," says Norwegian Refugee Council's Jan Egeland