Western Asia
Bethlehem Fetes Palestinian Arab Idol Singing Hero
Hundreds of Palestinians celebrated in Bethlehem after a young singer from the occupied West Bank city became the...
Syria’s White Helmets Rescuers Will Not Attend Oscars
Rescue workers from Syria's White Helmets group -- the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary -- will not attend...
Rudaw’s Shifa Gardi Killed Covering Battle For Mosul
A female reporter working for an Iraqi Kurdish channel was killed in a roadside bomb attack while covering clashes...
Suicide Attacks On Bases In Syria’s Homs Kill 42
Suicide attacks on two security service bases in the heart of Syria's government-held third city of Homs killed 42...
UN Syria Talks Open As Blast Reflects Fragility of Truce
The first full day of a fresh round of Syria peace talks began in Geneva Friday as a suicide bombing killed 42,...
Israel Invited 26 Oscar Stars To Visit. So Far None Has
A year ago Israel offered Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and other Hollywood stars all-expenses paid luxury trips, but...
UAE Signs $1.2 Bn In Deals As Arms Fair Opens
The four-day International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) kicked off Sunday in Abu Dhabi with the United Arab...
Arab Israeli Film Faces Backlash
The culture clash in "Bar Bahar" starts off when Nur, a veiled and conservative Muslim, moves into a flat with two...
Syria’s White Helmets To Travel To US For Oscars
Rescue workers from Syria's White Helmets -- the subjects of an Oscar-nominated documentary -- said on Saturday they...
Syria Regime Shelling of Funeral Kills 9
At least nine people were killed on Saturday when government forces launched a barrage of rockets that hit a funeral on...
‘Daddy, Pick Me Up!’ Screams Boy After Syria Attack
In the aftermath of a barrel bomb attack in Syria's Idlib, nine-year-old Abdel Basset Al-Satuf tries to sit up, his...
Damascus Denies Accusations of Chlorine Use In Aleppo
Syria's government on Wednesday fiercely denied accusations by Human Rights Watch that it used chemical weapons in its...
Syria Refugees Shrug Off Peace Talks But Dream of Home
Almost six years into a war that has devastated their country, Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon say they expect...
Saudi’s First Comic-Con Fest Set To Wow
Superheroes from Hollywood's Marvel studios are among the characters set to wow thousands of curious Saudis at the...
Georgian Orthodox Church Caught In ‘poisoning Plot’
There are suspicions that Georgian Church Patriarch Ilia II was the target Georgian police have arrested a priest...
Syria Talks In Astana ‘to Be Held Behind Closed Doors’
Kazakhstan said Tuesday that a new round of Astana talks on the Syria conflict led by Russia, Turkey and Iran will take...
New Talks Seek To End Syria’s War After Nearly Six Years
As Syria's war approaches its seventh year, two new rounds of talks on resolving the conflict are scheduled to take...
Delayed Syria Peace Talks To Resume Next Week
Delayed UN-sponsored peace talks aimed at ending Syria's civil war will resume on February 23 in Geneva, a few days...
Russia Releases Drone Footage of Fresh Palmyra Destruction
Russia's military on Monday released drone footage showing more destruction of treasured monuments by the Islamic State...