Middle East

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Two years ago, Gaza resident Saleh Abu Serdanah took out a small loan in…

PARIS (AP) — France is taking in a new group of Yazidis including women victimized by the Islamic State group…

(Reuters) – Bahrain’s Olympic women’s marathon silver medalist Eunice Kirwa has been provisionally suspended after failing a doping test, the…

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Libya is on the brink of a civil war that could “lead to the permanent division…

Jokha Alharthi on Tuesday became the first Arabic author to win the Man Booker International prize for her novel “Celestial…

Thirty years after Saddam Hussein starved them of water, Iraq’s southern marshes are blossoming once more thanks to a wave…

BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of documents purportedly collected from abandoned Syrian government offices during the country’s civil war reveal the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Libyan general who has gained control of the city of Benghazi and is believed to have…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — When Zubin Mehta joined the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in 1969, Lahav Shani wasn’t even born…

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian businessman who flouts political taboos by working with Israeli settlers in the West Bank could…