YARMUK, Syria: Not far from where he used to live, Palestinian engineer Mahmud Khaled watched as bulldozers rumbled back and forth scooping up smashed concrete from the devastated streets of Syria’s Yarmuk.Once home to

ALIAGA, Turkey: The trial of an American pastor at the heart of a diplomatic dispute between Turkey and the United States resumes Friday in Turkey, with observers waiting to see if authorities will release

IRBIL, Iraq: A joint task force of US coalition and Iraqi special forces has arrested 10 suspected members of a network that provided funding for Daesh in Baghdad and the northern city of Irbil,

Shinzo Abe will pay the first visit to China by a Japanese prime minister since 2011 later this month in the latest sign of warming ties between the Asian rivals. Abe will visit from

An American pastor whose detention for the past two years by Turkey sparked a crisis in ties with the United States went back on trial on Friday with Washington hopeful he will finally be

An Egyptian court in Cairo has renewed the detention of Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein for the 17th time. He has been in prison in Egypt for 661 days despite not being charged.  In

Berlin, Germany - On Friday evenings in Mitte, Berlin's central district, the sound of an oud travels up from the public library's ground floor. The Middle Eastern string instrument is being played in a room

A United Nations body has called on Saudi Arabia to immediately halt its deadly air raids against civilians in war-torn Yemen and prosecute officials responsible for child casualties due to unlawful attacks. The statement

IRBIL, Iraq: A joint task force of US coalition and Iraqi special forces has arrested 10 suspected members of a network that provided funding for Daesh in Baghdad and the northern city of Irbil,

TEL AVIV: An American graduate student who has been held in detention while fighting an expulsion order over her involvement in the boycott movement against Israel appeared in court on Thursday, asking a judge