MAARET AL-NUMAN, Syria: Nearly eight years after he joined his very first protest against Syria’s regime, Bahr Nahhas still demonstrates every week with unwaning energy, even if the slogans have changed.Just like he has

A court in India has sentenced 16 retired policemen to life imprisonment for murdering 42 Muslim men in Hashimpura village in Uttar Pradesh state's Meerut district in 1987. On Wednesday, a bench of Justices

It was a scene unthinkable just weeks ago: an Israeli Cabinet minister, tears of joy filling her eyes, proudly singing her country's national anthem at a sports event in the heart of the Arab

Bhutan is the only country in the world to measure success not by economic growth but by "gross national happiness". The philosophy has been at the centre of all government policy for the past

A group of more than 4,000 Central American migrants heading for the United States has arrived in southern Mexico. The so-called caravan is not the only one of its kind in the country. At

MUST-SEE PROGRAMMES Al Jazeera World King Hussein of Jordan: Survival of a dynasty The life and struggles of King Hussein of Jordan, from the assassination of his grandfather to the rise of the PLO.

After more than a decade of instability, parts of Iraq still lie in shambles, with several forces and groups fighting for control of large swathes of the country. ISIL, also known as ISIS, no longer

Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistan's Supreme Court has acquitted a Christian woman convicted for blasphemy, prompting sporadic protests by far-right groups that have been demanding her execution for years. Aasia Bibi was cleared of all

The United States told Taiwan it has its back on Wednesday amid rising threats from China against the self-governing island. Efforts to decide Taiwan's future by anything "other than peaceful means" are a "grave concern"

Officials say an Afghan army helicopter carrying senior officials has crashed, killing all 25 on board. Naser Mehri, a spokesman for the governor of western Farah province, said two army helicopters were on their way