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The cease-fire deal in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib remains in effect Sunday.

The pact is between Turkey, which backs some rebel groups, and Russia, which backs the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Romeu Mauricio and his son Jetfro (3) crossing the Darien dividing Colombia and Panama.

The U.S. Thursday slapped sanctions on Nicaragua’s national police and three top police commissioners for what it calls serious human rights abuses against anti-government demonstrators.

Rohingya refugee children queue to draw water from a well in Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh, June 2018.

On 3 March 2020 in the Syrian Arab Republic, World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley (seated, centre) and UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore (standing, second from right) visit with third grade children at Tal-Amara school in southern rural Idlib. The 9-year-old students have witnessed nothing but conflict, as they are the same age as the crisis. Many have not been able to enroll in formal education before. The school is the only elementary school in Tal-Amara village. With support from UNICEF, the school is providing 130 children with formal education and an accelerated learning programme (Curriculum B) for children who have missed out on years of education. The school is also part of WFP’s School Feeding Programme in the Sinjar subdistrict.

After growing up with no official nationality in an orphanage, now Françoise (left) and Christel are proud citizens of Cote d’Ivoire.

Shushmita Rani and her friend Binky at primary school in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

On 10 December 2014 outside of La Casa del Migrante, a catholic shelter that supports migrants near the Lechería Train Station, in the municipality of Tultitlan, State of Mexico, Maria [NAME CHANGED], 16 (on right), from Honduras travels north with her younger siblings, expecting to cross the border to the United States to reunite with her family.

Humanitarian relief operations are overwhelmed by the nearly one million people who have recently fled from violence in northwestern Syria, the United Nations' aid chief said Tuesday, repeating his calls for a cease-fire.

After nearly 19 years of fighting, representatives of the United States and Afghan Taliban signed a peace deal Saturday in Doha, Qatar.