BAGHDAD: Every Sunday in Iraq, along a strip of embankment on the Tigris River reserved for followers of the obscure and ancient Mandaean faith, worshippers bathe themselves in the waters to purify their souls.But

Raqqa, Syria: All day, dinghies cross the Euphrates River to shuttle residents into the pulverised cityscape of Syria’s Raqqa, where bridges, homes, and schools remain gutted by the offensive against Daesh.Exactly a year has

Tunisia's tourism industry is back in business, having gone into decline following a series of attacks on tourists by armed groups in 2015. The government says it expects visitor numbers to hit a record

Rohingya refugee girls are being sold into forced labour to raise money for desperate families in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh, according to the United Nations' migration agency. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said

Vietnamese authorities have released dissident blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, also known under her pseudonym "Mother Mushroom". Quynh, 39, was freed from jail on Wednesday and put on a plane to the United States

The Sochi agreement on Idlib between Russia and Turkey was expected to come into effect on October 15. Fighters and heavy weapons should have been pulled out from a 15-20 kilometres demilitarised zone separating

World hunger is on the rise and that will be one of the main focuses when the UN agency for food and agriculture meets in Rome this week. The agency says the way the

(CNN)If you were a Formula One fan who attended the US Grand Prix at Indianapolis in 2005, it could be argued you witnessed one of the strangest races in motorsport history.A field of 20

(CNN)The main auction ring at Tattersalls, Europe's leading bloodstock auctioneers, is packed as Lot 325 nervously enters.The yearling pricks up his ears as he walks next to his groom in the auction ring in

(CNN)Now that his Formula One career is coming to an end, Fernando Alonso admits he's starting to get a little sentimental. The 37-year-old Spaniard announced in August he was leaving F1 after 17 years