Many fear Smithfield’s special sense of place will be lost once the meat market is gone. But could a new emerging cultural ...

Syria's de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has sought to reassure Western officials and Middle Eastern governments worried ...

Syria's new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instil a ...

In a room of his house, destroyed by a Russian bomb, Nasser, a young HTS soldier recently returned from exile, feeds a small ...

Israel on Saturday approved a ceasefire deal with Palestinian militant group Hamas that involves release of hostages in the ...

Gaza The smell of paint lingers in the air, a wall still tacky from its application. In the Palestinian neighbourhood of ...

In Zahra, an Alawi neighbourhood on the outskirts of Homs in western Syria, an unspoken, organic curfew has taken hold since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. With the rise to power of Hay'at Tahrir ...

As anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod has argued in her book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, there is an assumption in the West “that liberal culture is the acultural norm and should be the universal ...

Thousands of people who vanished during former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's reign are still missing, a month after the ...

Some 1,500 victims of a deadly nerve agent are believed to be buried in one mass grave in Syria – now their families want ...

The death toll from Israel's war on Gaza has passed 46,000, with a new study saying it could be at least 40 percent higher ...

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza continue unabated after a violent overnight raid on Khan Younis claimed the lives of at least 20 Palestinians.