UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said yesterday that he had failed to get the agreement of government authorities on a plan to improve the humanitarian situation in besieged eastern Aleppo.

The UN’s envoy warned yesterday that time was “running out” for efforts to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in Syria’s war-battered Aleppo, as fresh fighting there killed at least eight schoolchildren.

Sporadic fighting shook parts of Yemen yesterday as the Saudi-led coalition battling Iran-backed rebels warned that a fragile US-brokered ceasefire would not be extended unless violations ended.

Yemen's dominant Houthi movement launched Katyusha rockets into Saudi Arabia on Sunday and residents reported Saudi-led air strikes in a Yemeni border province in exchanges that threatened to derail a 48-hour truce.

At least 16 people died and 50 were wounded in Libya in four days of clashes between rival factions in the southern city of Sabha, a health official said on Sunday.

A barrel bomb killed a family of six in rebel-held eastern Aleppo early on Sunday and rebel shelling killed eight children at a school in the government-held sector almost a week ...

The investigation into the Emirates jet crash landing at Dubai International on August 3 will take two to three years to complete, the director general of the United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority said.

Syrian rebel shelling of a school in government-held western Aleppo killed at least seven children on Sunday morning, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported.

Violence subsided on Sunday in Yemen, a day after the beginning of a 48-hour ceasefire declared by the pro-government Arab coalition battling rebel fighters for almost 20 months.

Yemen rebels and loyalist forces battled yesterday around third city Taiz even as a 48-hour ceasefire announced by a Saudi-led coalition fighting the insurgents began following US pressure.

An Egyptian court sentenced the head of the journalists’ union and two board members to two years in prison yesterday for harbouring colleagues wanted by the law and spreading false news, judicial sources and their lawyer said.

The first thing Iraqi teenager Afrah did when she escaped Islamic State captivity near Mosul was to remove her face veil and throw it defiantly to the ground.