Air strikes batter two hospitals in Aleppo countryside -monitor, medic
The conflict has killed hundreds of thousands of people and left half the country's pre-war population homeless
Police, migrants scuffle on border between Serbia and Croatia
According to the UN refugee agency, around 6,400 migrants from countries such as Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan are registered in Serbia
Air strikes destroy hospital in Aleppo countryside - monitor
Warplanes pound town of Atareb overnight, knocking its only hospital permanently out of service, says rights group.
Ending the enslavement of victims of conflict
Without more attention to frontline humanitarian action on slavery and trafficking positive intentions will fail to translate into real change slavery victims
Australia PM says asylum seekers to be resettled in U.S. after Trump takes office
Should Trump veto the deal with Australia, the detainees would either have to return to their home countries or remain in Nauru or Papua New Guinea
New U.N. role needed to fight human trafficking in conflict - experts
"There is a tendency for the agencies to their own thing and not be sufficiently aware of what other agencies are doing ... We need a central responsibility"
Migrants stopped at Serbia's border with Croatia
Some 150 migrants, reported as mostly from Afghanistan and Pakistan, walked from Belgrade 125 km to the Croatian border, demanding passage to Western Europe
Iraq troops aim to tighten noose on Islamic State in Mosul
Four weeks into the campaign to crush Islamic State in Mosul, the city is almost surrounded but the jihadists' defences breached so far only to the east
Fragile army gains in Mosul leave residents exposed
In some districts, control has changed hands three or four times as militants, using tunnels and exploiting civilians as cover, reverse military gains
Iraqi army says advances in Mosul, despite suicide bombers
Iraqi troops have been fighting for 10 days inside eastern Mosul, trying to expand their small foothold in the city Islamic State has controlled since mid-2014