Syria ceasefire collapses
DAMASCUS — Warplanes mounted the heaviest air strikes in months against rebel-held districts of the city of Aleppo overnight, rebel officials and the Syrian...Dozens killed in Yemen airstrike
SANAA — The death toll from a Saudi-led air strike which hit a house in a residential area in western Yemen has risen to 26 people, medics and residents in the...Boats carrying 600 migrants capsized near Egypt, scores dead
CAIRO — A boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off the coast of Egypt on Wednesday. At least 52 people died. Police arrested four members of the boat's crew.......
Syria ceasefire deal in balance
DAMASCUS — Russia and a war monitor said the Syrian army had begun to withdraw from a road into Aleppo on Thursday, a prerequisite for pressing ahead with...Less than half of world’s refugee children are in school
UNITED NATIONS — The majority of the world's some six million refugee children are not in school, making them five times less likely to get an education than the......
U.S., Israel sign $38 billion military aid package
WASHINGTON — The United States will give Israel $38 billion in military assistance over the next decade, the largest such aid package in U.S. history, under a...Houthis study U.S. truce proposal for Yemen
SANAA — A U.S. official has presented a proposal for a comprehensive ceasefire in Yemen to the country's dominant Houthis at a meeting in Oman, a member of the......
U.N. chief calls Netanyahu’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ video outrageous
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday lambasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "ethnic cleansing" video as an "unacceptable and...Record new U.S. military aid deal for Israel to be signed in days
Obama and Netanyahu during a meeting at the White House, Nov. 2015 (Reuters)WASHINGTON — The United States and Israel have reached final agreement on a record new......
Syrian army and allies regain key Aleppo district
DAMASCUS — Syria's army and its allies have regained an important Aleppo district lost to rebels last month, state media and a war monitor said on Thursday, and were...Saudi airstrike kills civilians north of Sanaa
SANAA — At least nine civilians, including four children, were killed on Thursday in an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on a residential building north of the......
World’s largest cemetery grows bigger as war rages in Iraq
BAGHDAD — The world's largest cemetery, in Iraq's Shi'a holy city of Najaf, is expanding at double its usual rate as the nation's death rate increased with the war...
Top Saudi cleric says Iran leaders not Muslims
September 7th, 20160 Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-SheikhMECCA — Saudi Arabia's top religious authority said Iran's leaders are not Muslims, drawing a rebuke from......
Car bomb kills nine in central Baghdad
The aftermath of the Karrada bombing in JulyBAGHDAD — At least nine people were killed in Baghdad late on Monday in a car bomb attack claimed by ISIS near a hospital...Amnesty urges Bahrain to end ‘heightened crackdown’ on opposition
LONDON — Amnesty International urged Bahraini authorities Thursday to end a "heightened crackdown" on its opposition, after some 60 Shi'a clerics were summoned or......
U.S. troops in Iraq increasingly active as Mosul battle nears
Defense Secretary Ash Carter talks to troops at the Baghdad International Airport, July 23.BAGHDAD — Kurdish Peshmerga forces retook a swath of northern Iraq late...Egypt seeks tougher punishment for female genital mutilation
Cards used to educate women about FGM, Minia, 2006CAIRO — Women's rights activists hailed the Egyptian government on Monday for advocating increased prison sentences......
Air strike kills 16 members of Yemeni imam’s family
SANAA — At least 16 members of the extended family of a Yemeni mosque imam were killed on Wednesday in an air strike on their family home in northern Yemen by the...Israel approves 284 new illegal West Bank housing units
JERUSALEM — Israel approved 284 new illegal housing units in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, drawing a U.S. accusation that its policies......
Austrian official ‘recommends’ Muslim kids don’t wear hijab to kindergarten
AUSTRALIA - An Austrian deputy mayor has urged parents to avoid sending their daughters to kindergarten wearing headscarves as the covering insinuates men look at them...ISIS suicide bomber kills 54 in Yemen attack
The compound after the attack (Reuters)ADEN — A suicide bomber killed at least 54 people when he drove a car bomb into a militia compound in Aden on Monday, the......
U.N. says 10,000 killed in Yemen war
UNITED NATIONS — At least 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen's 18-month-old civil war, the United Nations on Tuesday, approaching double the estimates of more...Chinese hotels ordered block guests from five Muslim countries
Police have ordered some low-end hotels in the Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou not to allow guests from five Muslim-majority countries to stay, though China's foreign......