The smell of dampness rises through the dust at a private club in central Baghdad, one of many shut in a crackdown on alcohol ...

On a hillside in Tunisia's northwestern highlands, women scour a sun-scorched field for the wild herbs they rely on for their ...

School lessons ended in Syria's biggest Palestinian refugee camp on October 18, 2012, judging by the date still chalked up on ...

Pope Francis on Saturday condemned the bombing of children in Gaza as "cruelty", sparking a sharp response from Israel which ...

At a Damascus intersection, young volunteers act as unofficial traffic cops after police assigned to the duty deserted their ...

In the towns and villages of southern Syria that Israel has occupied since the overthrow of longtime strongman Bashar ...

The suspected perpetrator of a deadly ramming at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday is a ...

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Israel's military said Saturday it had failed to intercept a "projectile" launched from Yemen that landed in Tel Aviv, with ...

With a new administration in Damascus, China is revaluating its relationship with Syria and increasingly focused on rise of ...

The Islamic Republic is facing questions about its regional strength, and ferocious criticism from its loyalists, as it ...

Ankara is concerned that Israel may seek to solidify its territorial gains in Syria, leveraging regional instability and ...