Girls who survived what activists said was a ground-to-ground missile attack by forces of Syria's President Assad, hold hands at Aleppo's Bab al-Hadeed district
Girls who survived what activists said was a ground-to-ground missile attack by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, hold hands at Aleppo's Bab al-Hadeed district April 7, 2015. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail
UN Security Council mulls how to help Syria's Yarmouk civilians
Some 3,500 children are trapped in camp largely taken over by Islamic State
Syrian insurgents kidnap then release 300 Kurds - Kurdish official
Kurdish militia and Islamist militants have fought territorial disputes in Syria during the four-year civil war
Al Qaeda kidnaps 300 Syrian Kurds, Kurdish official says
Women and children have been released
Conflict plunging Yemen towards humanitarian disaster, says U.N.
Millions in danger after two weeks of war
Few expectations as Russia hosts Syria talks
Four-day meeting to focus on humanitarian issues
Syrian Islamists exchange 25 women and children prisoners for commander
Children and women were kidnapped by insurgents more than a year ago from Shi'ite towns in northern Aleppo province
No refuge but the sea - fleeing Yemen's war by boat
As fighters close in on Aden, they cut off all escape routes by road and foreigners in the city begin jostling for a way out
Yemen's Houthis ready for talks if air strikes stop -senior member
United Nations says more than 500 people have been killed in the past two weeks and nearly 1,700 wounded