LONDON: With the media’s attention diverted toward turmoil and conflicts in other parts of the Middle East, it may seem as if the war in Syria has ended, but it certainly has not. It

San Antonio Secortez, Guatemala - Jakelin Caal was excited to go to the United States. The seven-year-old indigenous Q'eqchi' girl told everyone in her small remote village in San San Antonio Secortez about the

Syrian air defences intercepted "hostile targets" near the capital Damascus, the country's state media said on Tuesday. "Our air defences have intercepted a number of hostile targets near Damascus," Syrian state TV said. Loud

An eight-year-old Guatemalan migrant boy died shortly after midnight on Tuesday after being detained by US border agents, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement, the second migrant child this month

Nigeria's military has said 14 military and police personnel have been killed in an ambush by armed Boko Haram group. An army statement said on Tuesday that the security forces were on escort duty

Rescuers in Indonesia used drones and sniffer dogs on Tuesday to search for survivors along the devastated west coast of Java hit by a tsunami that killed at least 429 people. Military and volunteer

CAIRO: Clashes erupted Tuesday in the Sudanese capital between police and thousands of protesters attempting to march on the presidential palace to demand that President Omar Bashir step down, according to activists and video

Sanaa, Yemen - Four years of war have taken a devastating toll on Yemen, a nation the Romans once described as "Happy Arabia".  In a nation of 28 million, a staggering 22 million people are

Syria's seven-year war has transformed ancient cities into ghost towns. Entire neighbourhoods have been wiped off the map, schools and hospitals reduced to rubble, along with just about everything else. As the war seems

The NFL team the Raiders are moving to Las Vegas, leaving their longtime home in Oakland, California. The city’s fans are despondent and the city’s leaders are angry. As Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports,