Middle East
Women rally for equal rights in Syria after Assad’s fall to Islamists
By Orhan Qereman Reuters Thousands of women rallied in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Monday to demand the new Islamist rulers in ...Israeli strikes kill 17 Palestinians in Gaza, orders hospital to evacuate
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi Reuters Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 17 Palestinians, eight of them at a school sheltering displaced ...Saudi man arrested after deadly car attack on German Christmas market
By Marion PAYET AFP German police arrested a Saudi Arabian man after a deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market Friday in ...Syrians face horror, fearing loved ones may be in mass graves
By Layal Abou Rahal AFP After losing hope of finding his two brothers among those freed from Syrian jails, Ziad Alaywi was ...Syrian mass graves expose “machinery of death” under Assad, top prosecutor says
By Timour Azhari and Anthony Deutsch Reuters An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites ...Israeli airstrikes kill 14 Palestinians in Gaza, tanks push south
Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 14 Palestinians on Tuesday, at least 10 of them in one house ...Gaza civil defence says Israeli strikes kill 17 including mayor
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes on the territory killed 17 people on Saturday, including seven at a UN school housing ...Syria faces crisis, Gaza heading toward famine, U.N. says
BY EDITH M. LEDERER AP The deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Program has been on whirlwind visits to hotspots ...Dozens of UAE flights head to airstrip UN says supplies arms to Sudan rebels
By Reade Levinson and David Lewis Reuters Since civil war erupted in Sudan last year, dozens of cargo planes from the United ...Syrian refugees attempt to return home after fall of Assad regime
By Maya Gebeily and Timour Azhari Reuters Refugees from Syria’s long civil war were making their way home on Wednesday, as a ...














