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Rohingya children in the camps and makeshift settlements in Bangladesh urgently need warm clothes and blankets as overnight temperatures drop with the onset of winter, Save the Children is warning.

Humanitarian groups have begun evacuating sick people from a rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus.

The United Nations had called for an emergency evacuation of nearly 500 patients stranded in Eastern Ghouta, home to 400,000 residents, which has been cut off from food and medical aid since 2013. Many of them are children.

On December 20, marks 1,000 days since the escalation of the conflict in Yemen, which has already led to thousands of children dying from violence, hunger or preventable diseases like cholera.

Russia and China each signaled Monday a desire for a peaceful resolution to the tensions surrounding North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile activity.

Pope Francis used his traditional Christmas message to call for a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to help bring peace to the Middle East.

Nigerian soldiers thwarted an attempted terrorist attack by suspected Boko Haram militants on the city of Maiduguri Monday, sending panicked residents fleeing for their lives.

A woman and a child walk with their belongings along a road destroyed by Tropical Storm Tembin in Munai muncipality, Lanao del Norte, north Mindanao, the Philippines.

Peru’s president has granted a medical pardon to jailed former authoritarian leader Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses and corruption.

South Sudanese refugees queue for cash distributions at Meri camp in Haut-Uele province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, December 2017.

“It has been an honour meeting you” - says a UNHCR colleague as he says goodbye to little Tesfa who was among 162 refugees evacuated from Libya to Italy.