The UN's cultural organisation added Aleppo's famous soap to its intangible cultural heritage list Tuesday with Syria's second city again wracked by war. Artisans have brewed olive and laurel oil in large pots for some 3,000 years in the city -- which fell to Islamist-led
Iran has released Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi, jailed since November 2021, for three weeks on medical grounds, her lawyer posted on social media. Over the past quarter century, Mohammadi, 52, has been repeatedly tried and jailed for her vocal campaigning against
"What is happening in northern Gaza is the bloodiest since the beginning of the war," Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Civil Defence Authority, said to TNA.
Israeli tanks pushed into northern parts of Khan Younis, south of Gaza, on Wednesday as 20 people were killed across the enclave, including six children.
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Analysis: With thousands having already fled the rebel offensive in Aleppo and surrounding areas, Syrian Kurds fear for their future in the country's northwest.
Syrian rebels said they had made it to around six miles from Hama city, as the regime said its army was launching an offensive to drive them back
Celebrating Badenoch's leadership as a victory for brown & black people overlooks the racist politics peddled by her party as it shifts further to the right.
In Tyre, mass graves now hold the victims of this year’s war, serving as a reminder of the 2006 war with Israel and its lasting scars on Lebanon.
The rebel advance in northwest Syria has highlighted the Assad regime's weaknesses. But military gains remain vulnerable to erosion, says Fadel Abdulghany.
Since the onset of Israel's war on Gaza, the wellbeing industry's silence on the crisis highlights a failure to uphold empathy, social justice, and support
Syrian government forces launched a counterattack against Islamist-led rebels around the key city of Hama on Wednesday after suffering a string of staggering losses, a war monitor said. Hama is strategically located in central Syria and for the army, it is key to safeguarding
Following the recent war and despite the ongoing economic crisis, Lebanese winemakers fight to preserve their vineyards to keep production going amid the damage
Israel killed at least 20 people across Gaza near Wednesday as Syrian regime forces tried to stop a rebel advance near the key city of Hama
"I don't know how I will provide drinking water for my children. How will I tell them that they must remain thirsty!" Barakat told The New Arab.
The Supreme Leader rails against a secret Jewish plot to 'rule over us.' A former president hosts a Holocaust denial conference. Tehran rings out with chants of 'Death to Israel.' So is the equation, made routinely by Israeli politicians, that Iran = Nazi Germany justified? And
Speaking to The New Arab, some have argued that PA president Mahmoud Abbas has the right to end the endless suffering of Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel's mainstream media reporting on the war is remarkably conformist and inward-looking, but it is not the only reason for the dearth of coverage of the death and destruction in Gaza. The Israeli public has also made a choice
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rebels were "now at the gates of Hama city" and that fighters had shelled some neighbourhood.
AFP saw Israeli soldiers exiting the hospital and detaining staff, some of them wearing scrubs or doctor's gowns, before loading them into the armoured vehicles
France and Saudi Arabia announced they will co-chair a conference in June to call for the creation of a Palestinian state.
Qatar's emir was welcomed Tuesday by King Charles III at the start of a state visit where he will also hold talks with Prime Minister Keir Starmer
The East Jerusalem Hospitals Network and Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) called for the reopening of the Gaza to east Jerusalem medical corridor.
The team is led by a former Quds Force Syria branch commander, who Iranian media said had played a leading role in the 2016 anti-militant operations in Aleppo.
The spokesperson went on to to call the Syrian rebels 'terrorists', in a statement echoing regime leader Bashar al-Assad comments regarding the offensive.
France and Lebanon have appointed their representatives to the ceasefire monitoring committee agreed to by Hezbollah and Israel.
A wanted Belgian drug lord has been arrested in Dubai, according to judiciary sources who spoke to news agency AFP on Tuesday.
Cristiano Ronaldo watched on from the stands as already-qualified Al Nassr lost for the first time in this year's Asian Champions League Elite.
A Turkish court has jailed nine protesters who interrupted Erdogan, accusing his government of continuing oil exports to Israel despite an embargo.
Russia, a key ally of the Syrian regime, has provided significant military assistance to Assad and has expanded its presence in Syria over the years.
Turkey's president held calls on Syria with his Russian counterpart and Iraq's prime minister, while the top Turkish diplomat is expected to meet with his Russian and Iranian counterparts for three-party talks.
In-depth: While a sense of normality is emerging in Lebanon following the ceasefire, peace is on hold for those living on the border with Israel.
The Belgian state was ordered Monday to pay reparations to five mixed-race women who were forcibly placed in an orphanage 70 years ago.
Germany has arrested a man suspected of membership in Hezbollah accused of running two affiliated associations in Germany.
Lebanese officials are debating whether to dispose bomb site rubble from Israel's assault on the southern Beirut suburb in the sea.
The Palestinian health ministry on Tuesday said two men were killed in an Israeli air strike on what the military described as a "terrorist cell" near the occupied West Bank city of Tubas. "An Israeli airstrike on a car near the town of Aqaba" near Tubas in the northern West
In Libya, a shortage of cash in the banking system has pushed many to turn to cards for payments after more than a decade of war and instability has hammered the country's financial system. Across most Libyan cities, withdrawing money is akin to an obstacle course in which
The Egyptian government said the recent findings could lead to the discovery of a massive temple as significant as the Luxor Temple.
Under a recent agreement, 30 detainees were handed over to Iraqi authorities, including 10 from Kirkuk. Charges range from terrorism to other offences.
Extremist Israeli national security minister Ben Gvir pushed for the intensification of fighting in Gaza, reiterating that he wanted to see Jewish settlements.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared martial law in an unannounced late night address broadcast live on YTN television.
Islamist-led rebels advanced Tuesday on Syria's fourth-largest city Hama, buoyed by their lightning capture of swathes of the north in an offensive that ended four years of relative calm. The sudden flare-up in the more than decade-old civil war in Syria drew appeals for
Faced with major food shortages after nearly 14 months of war, Palestinians describe long days hunting for flour and bread in the conflict-ravaged Gaza Strip. Every morning crowds form outside the few bakeries open in the Palestinian territory, as people desperately try to get
Islamist-led rebels advanced on Syria's fourth-largest city Hama Tuesday, buoyed by their lightning capture of swathes of the north in an offensive that ended four years of relative calm. The sudden flare-up in the more than decade-old civil war in Syria just as a fragile
Islamist-led rebels advanced Tuesday on Syria's fourth-largest city Hama, buoyed by their lightning capture of swathes of the north in an offensive that ended four years of relative calm. The sudden flare-up in the more than decade-old civil war in Syria, just as a fragile
Kate, princess of Wales joined the British royal family in greeting Qatar's Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Sheikha Jawaher bint Hamad bin Suhaim Al Thani.
Canada designated Yemen's Ansarallah movement, commonly referred to as the Houthis, as a "terrorist entity".