First refugees and migrants in Slovenia a year ago
A year after Slovenia faced an influx of refugees and migrants from the Middle East, razor wire fence is still standing on the border with…
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Saudi woman, 20, granted khula after being forced to smoke hashish
The Family Court in Jeddah issued a divorce (khula) ruling in favor of a Saudi woman in her 20s, after her husband, in his fifties,…
USA invented Isis and set up 9/11 attacks
A columnist for a state-run newspaper in Egypt has suggested the US invented Isis and set up the 9/11 attacks to justify its military interventions…
US military says air strike killed Islamic State propaganda chief
The Pentagon said on Friday that a US-led coalition air strike on Sept. 7 killed an Islamic State leader who oversaw the militant group’s propaganda….
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…
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…