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In a report released Tuesday, August 18, 2015, Amnesty worldwide says all sides fighting in Yemen have left a “trail of civilian death and destruction” in the conflict, killing scores of innocent people in what could amount to war crimes.

It was the first time in two years that the council agreed on a political statement on Syria, which French Deputy Ambassador Alexis Lamek described as “historic”.

High-ranking officials in Yemen’s port city of Aden say al-Qaida militants have taken control of key areas of the city.

Almost four years after protesters stormed the UK Embassy in Iran, triggering a drastic breakdown in relations, Britain is restoring its diplomatic presence in Tehran.

More than a week after two massive explosions at a chemical warehouse tore into the northeastern Chinese port of Tianjin, officials are still trying to work out how safe is the city’s air, its earth and its water.

Authorities warned that cyanide levels in the waters around the Tianjin Port explosion site have risen to as much as 356 times acceptable levels although they declared that the city’s drinking water is safe.

“The scale of human suffering is nearly incomprehensible”.

“It is with utmost dismay that I learned of the airstrike on a teachers’ office in Amran, Yemen which killed 13 teachers, 4 children and injured 20 people on Tuesday night”.

Four Pakistani soldiers were killed and four others were injured in a rocket attack that was allegedly carried out by militants based in Afghanistan along the Pak-Afghan border, Pakistani military said on Sunday.

The U.S. on Wednesday launched its first airstrikes by Turkey-based F-16 fighter jets against Islamic State targets in Syria, marking a limited escalation of a yearlong air campaign that critics have called excessively cautious.

ISIL’s leader, al-Baghdadi, has himself had several brushes with death. Just last month, a senior leader was killed by a drone strike in Syria.

Saudi-led coalition warships were said to be en route to the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah as coalition air strikes pounded Houthi rebel targets in the city.

All participants in the Yemen conflict have “left a bloody trail of death and destruction” across the southern cities of Ta’iz and Aden and may have committed war crimes, Amnesty global said Tuesday.

A total of 150 firefighters from the city’s fire brigade are battling the blaze.

At least 121 people were killed while another 54 remain unaccounted for in Tianjin, the AP says.