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Iranian media reports say that five Iranian Shrine Defenders — including two high-ranking commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — have been killed in the ongoing fight inside Syria.

After years of being shielded from deportation from the United States while their country recovers from a devastating 2010 earthquake, tens of thousands of Haitians will lose that security status.

Zimbabwe's longtime president Robert Mugabe is facing impeachment after making it clear in a televised speech he will not resign.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is seriously concerned by proposals announced on November 17, by Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan.

An international fleet of ships and planes is fighting eight-meter high waves and 74 kilometer per hour winds searching for the ARA San Juan, a missing Argentine submarine with a crew of 44.

Young friends at Bangui’s Mpoko airport site for displaced people, Central African Republic, November 2015

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$15 million emergency contribution from the Government of Japan to support WFP’s response to the refugee crisis in Bangladesh.

Families in Kani Bardina village, Sulaymaniyah governorate, receive health check-ups and assistance from IOM Iraq Mobile Medical team, following an earthquake on the evening 12 November.

This Italian Navy landing craft is carrying 186 people who have been rescued at sea.

Russia on Thursday vetoed a U.S.-sponsored Security Council resolution that would have extended the international probe into chemical weapons use in Syria.