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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a contribution of AUD$4 million (approximately US$3 million) from the Government of Australia to provide multi-purpose cash assistance for almost 23,000 displaced Iraqis affected by conflict in Mosul.

The U.S. State Department is asking all nations to provide extensive data about their citizens wishing to travel to the United States, to help U.S. officials decide whether those citizens constitute a terrorist threat.

Two American men have been killed fighting against Islamic State militants in the terror group's de facto capital city of Raqqa, Syria.

Bartalla Camp.

Though the battle for Mosul has ended, extensive damage to homes and essential infrastructure has left thousands of displaced families with nothing to return to and in continued need of emergency food assistance to survive.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has reached two new locations in Raqqa governorate with food assistance, using a newly opened land route that has allowed access for the first time in three years to Mansoura and other rural areas north of Raqqa city.

War-torn Yemen is facing the world's worst cholera outbreak, the UN recently said.

While drinking water from a hand pump, a child smiles, in Mzuzu, the capital of Northern Region and the third largest city, by population, in Malawi.

President Donald Trump has postponed a final decision on whether to permanently lift economic sanctions against Sudan for another three months.

A U.S. judge in Detroit has halted the deportation of nearly 1,500 Iraqis, many of them Christians, pending full consideration of their claims for asylum.