Hamas is due to release three more hostages on Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners as part of the fragile peace ...

After weeks of speculation about "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei's strategy for dealing with the new Trump administration in Washington, it seems that he has opted for a cocktail of tantalizing pledges ...

Shireen Talaba and her brother, Khaled, were displaced from their Gaza City home to Khan Younis when the war began. When Khaled and two of their cousins were killed, Shireen vowed that when the war ...

Northeast Syria, he said, is enduring a silent tragedy. The region is struggling to cope with the influx of internally ...

Exile Coffee and Wine sits on a busy downtown street. The coffee bar and seating area occupy the first and second floor of a corner building that in its former life housed an online betting shop, and ...

The good news is that Pope Francis recently stated that ‘All Religions Are Paths To God’; and in the last 25 years more than 850,000 Jewish young adults have visited Israel with the support of the ...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad after a violent 13-year civil war was hailed as a new era for the embattled country, But, after just two months, many are fearful that they’ve just replaced one dangerous ...

The war artist-reporter and founder of Action Syria returns to the streets of Damascus and Aleppo 12 years on from when he was last there. Here, he captures the stories of the people he meets and thei ...

Ameera got in the car and turned around to look at the prison she had been lodged in, punished for no crime of her own. She ...

Francis Mading DengThe passing of Dr. Albaqir Al-Afif Mukhtar on January 23, 2025 was not entirely a surprise, since he had heroically been carrying the burden of severe illness for a long time. But ...

Whether due to natural disasters or thanks to the destructive tendencies of mankind, these iconic cultural touchstones no ...

Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof to discuss the UK release of The Seed of the Sacred Fig, made in secret, and his battle with ...