Hundreds of migrants were stranded at the weekend in a squalid, burnt-out tent camp in Bosnia as heavy snow fell in the country and winter temperatures suddenly dropped. Migrants at the Lipa camp in...More
Voters went to the polls in Niger on Sunday for an election that could seal a first peaceful handover between elected presidents, against the backdrop of a bloody jihadist insurgency. The West...More
Egyptian security officials met on Sunday with representatives of Libya's Government of National Accord, a first delegation in nearly six years from Cairo, considered a backer of a rival camp in the...More
Hundreds of Syrian refugees fled their makeshift camp in north Lebanon after their tents were torched when fighting broke out between local youths and camp residents, aid officials said on Sunday. At...More
An alliance of political parties opposed to India's policies in Kashmir has won a majority of seats in local elections, the first since New Delhi revoked the disputed region's semi-autonomous status...More
Near the wreckage of Beirut's port, a charity is bringing Christmas cheer to a city hammered by a devastating explosion, rising coronavirus infections and the worst economic crisis since Lebanon's...More
Turkey's parliament has extended for 18 months a law that allows the deployment of Turkish troops to Libya. The bill renewed a one-year mandate that came into force in January following a security...More
The United Arab Emirates' highest Islamic authority, the UAE Fatwa Council, has ruled that coronavirus vaccines are permissible for Muslims even if they contain pork gelatine. The ruling follows...More
A prominent Afghan activist who led an independent election monitoring organisation died on Wednesday after being ambushed by gunmen in Kabul, an aide and police said, the latest targeted killing in...More
After more than a decade fighting for the Taliban and being hounded by Afghan and U.S. forces, Haji Lala thought there was little chance of ever returning home. Once a commander and senior district...More
Israel's parliament dissolved on Wednesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's fractured ruling coalition failed to pass a budget, triggering a fourth election in two years and renewing an...More
Israel will hold a snap election in March after parliament failed on Tuesday to meet a deadline to pass a budget, triggering a ballot presenting new challenges for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...More
A decision by the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip to "limit the interaction" of Muslims with Christmas celebrations has caused outrage, with many Palestinians accusing the Islamist movement of...More
On Tuesday the United States Congress passed the Nita M. Lowey Middle East Partnership for Peace Act, historic legislation delivering unprecedented levels of funding for peacebuilding in Israel and...More
A volley of rockets exploded near the U.S. embassy in Baghdad on Sunday, as tensions mount ahead of the anniversary of the U.S. killing top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani on Iraqi soil. Agency...More
While he waits for his lesson at an Egyptian music school, Maissara Mohammed plays his oud, its soothing tones dissolving the stress of daily life during the coronavirus pandemic. "I play four...More
The Palestinian foreign minister on Saturday urged Israel to return to talks based on a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ahead of the transition to a new U.S. administration...More
Lebanon's prosecutor investigating last summer's horrific explosion at the Beirut port has paused the probe for 10 days, following legal challenges to his authority by the same senior officials he...More
Germany has organised the return of three women and 12 children from camps in northeastern Syria for humanitarian reasons, its foreign minister reported on Sunday. Heiko Maas did not further identify...More
Lebanese comedians are bringing relief and defying taboos with jokes about dating, partying during the coronavirus pandemic – and how even drug dealers are considering leaving the crisis-hit country...More
Christmas trees and glittery ornaments are for sale at a Saudi gift shop, a once unthinkable sight in the cradle of Islam where all public non-Muslim worship is banned. In recent years, festive sales...More
Children's TV show "Sesame Street" has unveiled its first Rohingya Muppets to help thousands of refugee children overcome trauma and tackle the coronavirus pandemic's impact in the world's largest...More
In a move some have said is already a direct result of Pope Francis’s highly anticipated visit to the country in March, Iraqi parliament earlier this week voted to establish Christmas as an annual...More
A court in Istanbul is due on Friday to begin hearings in a new trial of prominent philanthropist and businessman Osman Kavala on charges linked to an attempted coup in 2016. Kavala has been behind...More
The European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that authorities can order that animals be stunned before slaughter in a move decried by Israel and religious groups as attacking their traditions. The...More
Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused Egyptian authorities of making modifications to a notorious Cairo prison that amount to "collective punishment" of inmates following an escape attempt that left...More
To dodge skyrocketing prices for animal fodder in Syria's last major rebel bastion, farmer Ayman Ibrahim has turned to an aquatic fern used as a fertiliser in Asian rice paddies. Azolla, which looks...More
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has sought to distance itself from a face-recognition software feature devised by its cloud computing unit that could help users to identify members of the country's Muslim...More
Algeria has announced tighter state controls over online media, sparking alarm in the North African country whose pro-democracy movement is under heightened pressure from the government. President...More
Security forces on Thursday rescued nearly 350 schoolboys who had been kidnapped by suspected Islamist gunmen in northern Nigeria and taken into a vast forest, the governor of Katsina state said. The...More
They shared a childhood in a West Bank Jewish settlement but as adults Yaakov and Yonatan Berg have developed radically different views about Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory. The...More
International Criminal Court prosecutors have rejected calls by exiled Uighurs to investigate China for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity, the chief prosecutor's office said in a report on...More
A record 274 journalists were in jail at the beginning of December because of their work, nearly three dozen of them on charges of ``false news", the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Tuesday...More
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei held his first public function on Wednesday since rumours surfaced of his deteriorating health, Iranian state media reported. Khamenei met organisers of...More
Outrage is mounting in Sri Lanka after at least 15 Muslim coronavirus victims, including a baby, were cremated against family wishes and in contravention of Islamic funeral rite s. Health authorities...More
For Nabil al-Kurd, being forced out of the East Jerusalem home he has lived in since the 1950s would be a fate worse than death. But the 76-year-old and his wife and children are among dozens of...More
Judges will issue their verdict Wednesday on 14 suspected accomplices of the Islamist gunmen who murdered some of France's most famous cartoonists at weekly Charlie Hebo in 2015, killings that...More
Escalating attacks on the Iraqi capital's few liquor stores have terrified shop-owners who fear hardline Islamists are flexing their muscle against alcohol consumption. But there may be a bigger...More
Sumini gets up at dawn to do her household chores – then leads a team of women into the jungles of Indonesia's Sumatra island, on a mission to battle rampant deforestation and wildlife poaching. The...More
Stay in a squalid refugee camp – hopeless, starving and made to feel a burden – or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met. This is the...More
Iran on Sunday summoned the German and French envoys to Tehran after the European Union condemned the execution of an Iranian journalist whose work helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017...More
Austria's Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that a law banning girls aged up to 10 from wearing headscarves in schools was discriminatory, overturning the measure introduced by the ruling...More
More than 300 schoolboys are still missing after gunmen attacked a school in Nigeria, authorities said on Sunday. "So far we are yet to account for 333 pupils," said Aminu Masari, governor of the...More
A poem recited by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Azerbaijan kicked off a row between his home country and Iran, which accused Ankara of undermining its territorial integrity. "We condemn...More
Casablanca's "Madame Fhal" bakery is famed for its delicious kosher bread, but in its busy queue there was only one thing on people's lips – a deal between Morocco and Israel. "Everyone is talking...More
A court in Iran has handed a nine-year jail sentence to British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady, after convicting him of conducting "subversive" research work, the semi-official news agency...More
Clashes in the Nagorno-Karabakh region have killed four Azeri servicemen in recent weeks, Azerbaijan's defence ministry said on Sunday, in the first report of casualties since a Russian-brokered...More
Indonesian police arrested firebrand Islamic cleric Rizieq Shihab on Saturday on suspicion of violating coronavirus protocols after the staging of several mass gatherings since his return from self-...More
An Australian man from China's Muslim Uighur community was reunited with his family, including a three-year-old son he had never met, after Beijing agreed they could depart Xinjiang. Sadam...More
Western governments face a growing dilemma over how to secure the release of their citizens and dual nationals detained in Iran, with activists accusing Tehran of engaging in "hostage diplomacy" by...More
A UN-backed tribunal will on Friday sentence a Hezbollah member convicted of the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafic Hariri, with prosecutors demanding a life term. Salim Ayyash, 57,...More
The Polisario Front independence movement condemned on Thursday a declaration by U.S. President Donald Trump backing Moroccan rule over the disputed Western Sahara region. "The Polisario and Sahrawi...More
"Temple of Refuge" illustrates Iraqi-Kurdish migrant Sartep Namiq's journey to Berlin. It was commissioned with the help of a unique organisation. By Stefan Dege
