Tag: Geography of Asia

Fifty years after the 1967 Six-Day War, a photograph of three awestruck Israeli paratroopers at the freshly captured Western Wall ...

US President Donald Trump will decide on Thursday whether to renew a legal waiver that delays an eventual move of ...

A 'disgruntled' ex-employee of a Saudi private school shot dead two staff members and injured a third, the school's chairman ...

A US-led coalition air strike on eastern Syria has killed a founder of the Islamic State group's notorious Amaq propaganda ...

Authorities in Sri Lanka on Wednesday banned the open dumping of garbage near wildlife sanctuaries to discourage elephants from foraging ...

Seven men have been sentenced to death for raping a disabled boy in Kuwait and threatening to leak footage of ...

British Prime Minister Theresa May held talks with Saudi officials on Tuesday, hoping to tap the oil-rich kingdom's "immense potential" ...

US President Donald Trump faces a Thursday deadline to decide whether to move the US embassy in Israel to the ...

For Iranian viewers sitting down for this year's primetime historical drama during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, there was ...

An Indian navy ship has plucked 27 people from rough seas off Bangladesh, officials said Wednesday, a day after Cyclone ...

Saudi Aramco is to build the region's biggest shipyard in a $5.2 billion joint venture with South Korea's Hyundai Heavy ...

The Arab-Israeli war of June 1967, or Six-Day War, radically changed the map of the Middle East. Between June 5 ...

Israelis and Palestinians mark 50 years since the Six-Day War next week as the gap between them further widens, with ...

US officials came out Tuesday to praise and defend President Donald Trump's first Middle East tour, but one question about ...

The UN refugee agency on Tuesday urged Morocco and Algeria to provide safe passage for dozens of Syrian refugees trapped ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview published Tuesday, said he was "convinced" the Syrian government was not behind an ...

With oil production at its lowest in years, a total halt in phosphate exports and power generation sharply reduced, Syria's ...

Norway says it "regrets" Qatar's expulsion of a Saudi Arabian human rights activist on his way to claim refugee status ...

Two bombings killed at least 27 people and wounded more than 100 in Baghdad, officials said Tuesday, as Iraqi forces ...

A British journalist faces jail time after he was arrested at Thailand's main airport with a gas mask and plates ...