U.S. probes reports of fraud in obtaining aid for Syria
The US Agency for International Development has halted several aid activities in Turkey over suspicions of fraud
Yazidi woman held captive by Islamic State tells her story
A young Yazidi woman sold to Islamic State militants across Iraq and Syria tells of her horrific ordeal that lasted a year and a half
U.N. investigators tell states to stop Syria war crimes
Air strikes, shelling and rocket fire have been consistently used in attacks on civilian areas, say U.N. war crimes investigators
On patrol with the Sinjar Resistance Units, the village of Umm al-Dhiban, northern Iraq
Members of the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS), a militia affiliated with the Kurdistan WorkersÕ Party (PKK), stand in the village of Umm al-Dhiban, northern Iraq, April 29, 2016. They share little more than an enemy and struggle to communicate on the battlefield, but together two relatively obscure groups have opened up a new front against Islamic State militants in a remote corner of Iraq. The unlikely alliance between the Sinjar Resistance Units, an offshoot of a leftist Kurdish organisation, and Abdulkhaleq al-Jarba, a Arab tribal militia is a measure of the extent to which Islamic State has upended the regional order. Across Iraq and Syria, new groups have emerged where old powers have waned, competing to claim fragments of territory from Islamic State and complicating the outlook when they win. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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Almost 41 million people were displaced in their countries last year, with Yemen recording the most new cases
Countries backing Syria talks to meet in Vienna on May 17 - Kerry
A recent surge in bloodshed in Aleppo, Syria's largest city before the war, wrecked a 10-week-old partial truce
Bomb attack on police vehicle in Turkey's Diyarbakir kills 3 - sources
Opposition parties say more than 500 civilians have also been killed since conflict between the state and PKK re-ignited
Who will listen to older people in humanitarian crises?
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