Western Asia
Priceless Remains Lie In Ruins At Mosul Museum
It was once home to priceless archaeological treasures, but these days you get into Mosul museum in Iraq's second city...
15 Dead In Fighting Near Yemen Red Sea Port
Seven Yemeni soldiers and eight rebels were killed in heavy fighting over the past 24 hours near the Red Sea coastal...
Aleppo Car Lover Aims To Revive His ‘wounded’ Classics
Car enthusiast Mohammed Mohiedin Anis gazes sadly at a 1955 Buick Super, one of his collection of vintage cars...
Long-Awaited Concert Music To the Ears of Saudis
Legendary Arab singer Rashed al-Majed gave his fans three encores in the Saudi capital on Thursday night. Why not? They...
France’s Jarre To Play Israel In Aid of Dead Sea
Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre says he will perform in Israel next month in a concert to publicise the...
Deaf Syrians Learn the Language of War
Twice raising the little finger represents "I" and placing a thumb on the index finger and the middle finger makes an...
Couple ‘detained In UAE For Sex Outside Marriage’
A South African man and his Ukrainian fiancee have been detained in the United Arab Emirates for unlawful sex, a...
Lebanon Raids Financial Offices Over Transfers To IS
Lebanese authorities carried out raids Wednesday against currency exchange offices and money transfer companies on...
Sea of Galilee Water Level Lowest In Century
The lake where Christians believe Jesus walked on water has declined to its lowest level in a hundred years, an Israeli...
Egyptians Protest Over New Bread Subsidies System
Dozens of Egyptians take part in demonstration in front of a government office in downtown Alexandria on March 7, 2017,...
Sea of Galilee Water Level Lowest In Century
The lake where Christians believe Jesus walked on water has declined to its lowest level in a hundred years, an Israeli...
Jihadist Tunnels Save Assyrian Winged Bulls of Mosul
Crawl through a labyrinth of narrow tunnels in near total darkness and suddenly they appear: two great winged bulls...
Former Gitmo Detainee Killed
A former inmate of Guantanamo Bay has been killed by a US air strike in Yemen targeting al-Qaeda, the Pentagon said....
Iraq Says Forces Retake Government HQ, Bridgehead In Mosul
Iraq announced on Tuesday that its forces have retaken the provincial government headquarters and a second bridgehead...
EU To Host Syria Conference April 5 With UN
The European Union will host a conference on the post-conflict future of Syria with the United Nations in Brussels on...
Female Saudi Horse Trainer Sees Hope For Women
Dana al-Gosaibi's passion for horses has been hard to pursue in Saudi Arabia, where conservatives resist women's...
Trapped Syrians Tell of Misery In No Man’s Land
A Jordanian army ambulance pulled up at a makeshift clinic a few hundred metres from a desert border camp where tens of...
Syria’s Ancient Palmyra, Symbol of Jihadist Destruction
Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, which government forces are again battling to retake from jihadists, has become a...
Avoid Insults, UN Urges Syrian Rivals At Tense Talks
A ban on mobile phones, recording devices and "offensive language": the ground rules handed out at Syrian talks reflect...