Fatma Tanis

A study shows that of the one in eight children in several African countries who have asthma, the vast majority are undiagnosed and therefore untreated.

Turkey is set to have significant influence in Syria after Turkish-backed rebels defeated the Assad regime. We look at what Turkey's goals are in the region and what challenges it may face.

People hold a banner featuring Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as members of the Syrian community and supporters gather in Istanbul to celebrate the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the face of an offensive by Islamist-led rebels, on Dec. 8.

The Kurdish coalition that controls a third of Syria and helped the US fight ISIS is facing a new reality after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. NATO ally Turkey sees them as a threat and is demanding the dismantling of Kurdish militia (YPG). And some of the majority Arab civilians who live in Kurdish controlled areas want to be governed by the rebels that took Damascus instead.

Turkey is expected to play a major role as the new government takes over ruling Syria. Turkey had shown tacit support for groups fighting the Assad dictatorship.

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters stand guard at Al Naeem Square in Raqqa, Syria, in February 2022.

At an April 14, 2020 briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, President Trump announced his intention to halt U.S. funding for World Health Organization WHO. U.S. membership in the U.N. body is likely to be reviewed in the early days of his second term.

After being inaugurated for his second president term, President Donald Trump has frozen virtually all U.S. foreign aid and issued a "stop work" order for groups in other countries that are funded by the U.S. government. Above: At the start of the pandemic, members of the Honduran Armed Forces carry a box containing diagnostic kits to test for COVID-19, donated by the United States Agency for International Development and the International Organization for Migration.

Following Trump's Monday freeze on foreign aid, a subsequent memo calls for for a stop-work order for current grants and contracts.

MSI Reproductive Services, a nonprofit group, lost U.S. funds during the first Trump administration because they would not abide by the Mexico City policy, which cut off American aid to groups that discuss or provide abortion services. Above: A 19-year-old woman talks with a nurse at a traveling contraception clinic in eastern Madagascar run by the group.