89 immigrants saved from drifting boat

Oil tankers are seen waiting to refill in the water off the Zawiya Refinery, some 40 kilometers west of Tripoli, on October 27, 2011. Libyan protestors have forced a major oil terminal to halt its operations for the second time in six months in ...

JABAL AL-ZAWIYA, Syria — The rebel commander Jamal Maroof was fiddling with his iPhone when a young man brought him news. People were complaining about the rebel checkpoints that dotted the more than two dozen villages under the control of ...

Clashes - Maan News Agencies The Maan News Agency reported that the clashes were concentrated in Bab Az-Zawiya, in the center of , in Halhoul nearby town, in Al-Arroub refugee camp, in Al-Fawwar refugee camp, and the At-Tabaqa village. On Friday ...

Despite food shortages and irregular power supplies, people in Gaza are finding ways to keep their culinary traditions alive - and eat their own distinctive spicy dishes. Amid the loud whir of fans and clatter of plates in his kitchen, Asad Abu ...

293 Palestinian Children Kidnapped In The First Quarter Of 2013 File - Image Radio Bethlehem 2000 On May 2, the army invaded Hares village, near the central West Bank city of Salfit, and kidnapped Ali Shamlawi, 16, Mahmoud Sultan, 15, and Ayoub ...

The Center is a recognized source of informed policy research and analysis on the challenges of political and socioeconomic development, peace, and security in the greater Middle East. Carnegie Europe aims to foster new thinking on the daunting ...

Bryan Denton for The New York Times Hassan Aboud and Abu Ayman, two commanders of Islamist fighting units. In recent weeks considerable public attention has turned to questions of whether government forces in Syria have used chemical weapons. And ...

Update from Migrante Dubai chapter: As of 11:00 a.m. Dubai time, there are at least 960 OFWs from Libya who are stranded in Dubai airport. Terminal 1 788 OFWs (62 OFWs were the last batch to arrive at dawn Dubai time, 32 of these are children) ...

An Internet outage affecting the war-torn country of Syria has been blamed on the failure of a fiber-optic cable. The outage effectively cut off the country from the rest of the Internet for almost a day. It is not known whether it was due to a ...