ZAM ZAM CAMP, Sudan — They are the new faces in a place they would rather not be, and the meager scraps sheltering them from the blazing desert sun are a testament to their sudden arrival: tents of ... Read more
ROME — As new reports of sectarian atrocities flowed from Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry telephoned leaders in Europe and the Middle East on Wednesday to lay the ground for a conference between ... Read more
BEIJING – The devastating earthquake that struck southwest China last weekend has drawn a flood of donations from across the country. But in contrast to the pattern after a major quake in ... Read more
GENEVA — The United Nations will soon have to start cutting off lifesaving aid to people fleeing the war in Syria because the exodus has far outstripped financial support from international donors, one ... Read more
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The head of a United Nations refugee agency said Thursday that refugees from Syria’s war were on the verge of overwhelming the United Nations and the countries bordering Syria. ... Read more
WASHINGTON — An Obama administration plan to change the way the United States distributes its international food aid has touched off an intense lobbying campaign by a coalition of shipping companies, ... Read more
CAIRO — Libyan security officials said Friday that they had arrested two men in the kidnapping this week in eastern Libya of five British humanitarian activists, at least two of them women who had been ... Read more
SAWRAN, Syria — The United States and other international donors are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on humanitarian aid for Syrians afflicted by the civil war. But here in the rebel-controlled ... Read more
CAIRO — Koert Debeuf, a Belgian who works in Cairo as a representative of centrist parties in the European Parliament, says he was smuggled from Turkey into Syria by rebel commanders in January to study ... Read more
MOSCOW — Russia sent a planeload of food, blankets and other aid to war-stricken Mali on Friday, a day after Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov warned about the spread of terrorism in North Africa, which ... Read more