On July 9, 2011, the Republic of South Sudan declared its independence from Sudan and became Africa's 54th nation.

Preventable illness and death occur even in industrialized settings that are marked by inequality, lack of information, ...

UNICEF is working with Sudan's Ministry of Health and other partners to protect children from cholera. More supplies and ...

H E WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, announced in May that it would disband and renounce armed conflict, ending four decades ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony Friday in northern Iraq, the first ...

South Sudan’s longest cholera outbreak enters critical stageThe outbreak – which started in September 2024 and was confirmed a month later – comes amidst a protracted humanitarian crisis exacerbated ...

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

Two drones fell in the Khurmala oilfield in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Iraqi Kurdistan's counter-terrorism service said in a statement on Monday.

AFRICA A massive increase in people fleeing to Tawila in North Darfur over the last three months is propelling the small town into a full-scale humanitarian crisis. With the rainy season starting, ...

Iraq has managed to uphold domestic stability despite regional turmoil. However, rapid expansion of spending and emerging financing constraints led to arrears accumulation in 2024. These challenges ...