Three attacks on Israelis shatter relative calm
Three alleged assailants were killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis Friday, security forces said, shattering weeks of relative calm in Israel and the Palestinian…
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USA No cooperation with Russia until Syria aid flows
The United States made clear on Friday it will not set up a planned joint U.S.-Russian military coordination cell in Syria until regime forces there…
Troops replace tourists in Aleppo’s Old City
Instead of colorful, handmade caps for sale to Syrians and foreign tourists, Zakaria Mosuli – the last tailor in Aleppo’s battered Old City – now…
Syria aid blocked, violence spreads
The United States and Russia said today they wanted to extend the four-day-old ceasefire in Syria they have co-sponsored, although the agreement looked increasingly shaky,…
Waiting rooms: abandoned Ottoman railway stations – in pictures
German artist Ursula Schulz-Dornburg headed to Saudi Arabia to photograph former railway stations, lost in the desert for decades. Dotting the landscape in Saudi Arabia…
The thirty-year war: still on track
In spring 2003, barely two weeks after the invasion of Iraq, one of the earlier columns in this series was perhaps rashly titled “A thirty-year…
ISIS Declares State of Emergency in Iraq’s Mosul
ISIS has reportedly declared a state of emergency in Mosul and taken its troops off the streets after a series of assassinations. The terror group,…
Catholics are being forced out of Iraq and Syria. The Pope’s new reform could help them
The common perception of Pope Francis is that he is a Pope without much time for laws, preferring a more freewheeling “pastoral” approach in his…
Massive Explosion Kills Nine Militants in ISIS Explosives Factory in Iraq
A well-placed source in Anbar Operations Command declared that nine ISIS members were killed in the explosion of a booby-trapped vehicle while they were trying…
Iran-Russia joint bank to help boost rial, ruble
A top trade official in Tehran says Iran and Russia are working on opening a joint bank between the two countries, adding that the move…