Inside Assad's Syria
For the past month, Russian bombs over Syria have further complicated the civil war, a conflict that has been tearing the country apart for...
Gaza Strip gets first new hospital in a decade, two more due this year
The Gaza Strip's struggling healthcare system will get some much needed help in 2016 after the first new hospital in a decade opened its...
Anti-Semitic routine at a Carnival parade in Spain
Rodica Radian-Gordon, Isreal’s ambassador has denounced a Carnival parade routine in a small town that featured men and women dressed up like Jewish Holocaust...
No civilians exit Syria rebel-held region on day 2 of pause
No civilians exited the rebel-held Syria region near the capital Damascus on Wednesday, the second day of a Russia-ordered brief daily humanitarian pause...
Lebanese military detained five Sudanese citizens near the border with Israel
Hours after the Israeli military announced that it detained five Sudanese citizens on suspicion they were trying to infiltrate the heavily-guarded border, the Lebanese...
Warnings of a new spike in infections in Iran
The COVID-19 respiratory disease has killed 6,640 people in Iran since the first two fatalities were reported in the city of Qom on February...
Syria refugees kept behind fences amid Jordan security fears
A barbed wire-topped fence encircles a section of this bleak U.N.-run camp, isolating thousands of recent arrivals — whom Jordan considers a potential security...
Pope approves Mother Teresa sainthood
Pope Francis has recognised a second miracle attributed to the late Mother Teresa, clearing the path for the nun to be elevated to sainthood...
Expanded powers for Egyptian authorities amid virus outbreak
The Egyptian government has waged an unprecedented crackdown on dissent since 2013, when el-Sissi rose to power, and unauthorized protests have been banned for...
U.S. sanctions businessman helping Syrian government buy oil from Islamic State
The United States sanctioned a Syrian businessman on Wednesday who it said was a middleman for oil sales between Islamic State and the Syrian...
