Syrian opposition groups have accused President Bashar al-Assad's regime of preparing to breach a fragile, week-old ceasefire by transferring hundreds of people from the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs to rebel-held Idlib province.
The mistaken US-led coalition bombing of a Syrian military position Saturday may have happened because the personnel weren't wearing military uniforms and didn't have standard military weapons, several US military officials told CNN.
This week world leaders are gathering during the United Nations General Assembly to tackle one of our gravest global challenges: a refugee crisis at a scale unprecedented for generations.
After one of the deadliest attacks in Indian-administered Kashmir in more than two decades, it appears that a new chapter in the India-Pakistan geopolitical saga has begun.
In a patch of desert largely unseen by the outside world, a humanitarian emergency is unfolding with tens of thousands of people trying to survive in miserable conditions.
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On the day the United Nations meets in New York to discuss the refugee crisis, organizers in London created a poignant reminder of the plight facing refugees.
An Australian medical student says she and her mother were forced to leave a beach on the French Riviera after locals took exception to their burkinis.
It's the world's toughest "to do" list: stop violent extremism, solve the worst global refugee crisis in a quarter century, foster peace in the ravaged Middle East and -- in the meantime -- work to end poverty, disease, hunger and the threat of nuclear weapons.
A Norwegian man held captive for almost a year by a militant Islamist group in the Philippines was freed Saturday, according to CNN Philippines and the state-run Philippines News Agency (PNA).
Former French President Jacques Chirac has been admitted to a Paris hospital for a pulmonary infection, according to a report from Agence France-Presse.
Hours after US-led coalition airstrikes reportedly killed dozens of Syrian troops, the US and Russian ambassadors to the United Nations chastised each other outside an emergency Security Council meeting.
