Islamists rise as chaos descends in Yemen's cosmopolitan port
In Aden, Yemen's most cosmopolitan city, the masked Islamist gunmen seem to have burst onto the streets from some other world.
They storm university classrooms...
Price crash in Iraq oil earnings
The second-biggest crude producer in the OPEC oil cartel, Iraq sold 105 million barrels in March, earning $2.99 billion, according to an oil ministry...
UN study finds more women face genital mutilation than earlier estimated
More than 200 million girls and women globally have suffered genital mutilation, far higher than previously estimated, which highlighted the need to accelerate efforts...
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...
Canada confirmed one case of deadly Virus with 2,000 cases in China
The death toll from the new virus in China has risen to 56 with 1,975 total cases reported.
The figures reported Sunday morning cover the...
Refugee bill would delay entry of Iraqis who supported U.S. troops
Saad Danno spent six years helping Americans in Iraq during the U.S.-led occupation of his country, first as an aid worker and later as...
Aid airdrops to Syria's besieged are 'too dangerous'
As images and reports of starvation in besieged Syrian communities drew an international outcry and two rare aid convoys this month, an urgent question...
Under Iraq’s Sinjar, ISIS militants built network of tunnels
Under the Iraqi town of Sinjar, ISIS militants have built a network of tunnels, complete with sleeping quarters, wired with electricity and fortified with...
Drawing the horror of a Syrian detention centre
A Syrian artist who was accused of being an opposition activist and tortured in a detention center has drawn pictures of his experiences -...
Political paralysis leaves Palestinians questioning their future
As Israel frets about the lifting of sanctions on Iran and its troubled relations with the European Union, on the other side of the...
