After joining IS aged 15, German woman asks to go home

AFP | Four years after leaving Germany to live under the Islamic State group, 19-year-old Leonora has fled the jihadists' last bastion in eastern Syria...

Yemen’s abandoned churches, remnants of a fading past

AFP | Vandalised, caught in the crossfire, burnt to the ground: Yemen's churches, once filled by small but diverse Christian communities, are now abandoned after...

Pope Francis in historic Arabian Peninsula visit

AFP | Pope Francis is set for a historic trip to the UAE, the first-ever papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula, as he seeks to...

Catholicism in the Arabian Peninsula

AFP | Pope Francis's three-day trip to the United Arab Emirates Sunday marks the first time a pontiff has ever visited the conservative Muslim Arabian...

Displaced Syrian children sift through trash to buy bread

AFP | Outside a camp for the displaced in northwest Syria, 15-year-old Sabaa al-Jassim hacked away at a mountain of trash hoping to find scraps...

For Yemenis, shaky truce not much different from war

AFP | Yemeni medics scrambled to save a 20-year-old woman after a sniper's bullet tore a gash in her scalp in the port city of...

Support for US Iran policy out of left field: China dramatically reduces trade with Tehran – Dr James M Dorsey

Dr James M Dorsey | China has dramatically reduced its trade with Iran in line with US sanctions, raising questions whether Iran will remain committed to...

What Khashoggi means for Americans everywhere? – Imran Jan

Imran Jan | A friend of mine once asked me why I wanted to become an American citizen. “The government that looks out for its...

PM seeks financial assistance package from Doha

News Desk | Prime Minister Imran Khan has sought an economic assistance package from Qatar which includes revision of LNG price and its supply on...

Putin and Erdogan to hold Syria talks

AFP | Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold Syria talks in Moscow on Wednesday, with Turkey saying they...

Plea for peace as body of murdered Arab-Israeli student returns home

AFP | Australians have farewelled Arab-Israeli student Aya Maasarwe in emotional vigils and ceremonies as her heartbroken father prepared to return home with her body...

In Iraq, political wrangling spawns debate over US troops

AFP | From the halls of parliament to the lightning-fast rumour mills of social media, pro-Iran factions are demanding US troops withdraw from Iraq in...
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