Tag: Geography of Asia

Before solar power came to the Jordan desert camp she now calls home, life was tough for Syrian refugee Racha ...

Standing outside the UN's headquarters in Geneva, Amina Kholani chokes back tears as she relives the nightmare of visiting relatives ...

The city of Washington on Wednesday condemned a "brutal attack on peaceful protesters" after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's bodyguards clashed ...

Two British men have been arrested in Bangkok for allegedly selling online access to illegally streamed football broadcasts. The Premier ...

A Sharia court in Indonesia’s Aceh province has sentenced two men to be caned in public for having gay sex. ...

The United States on Monday accused the Syrian regime of installing a prison crematorium to destroy the remains of thousands ...

Controversial new US ambassador to Israel David Friedman arrived in the country on Monday to take up his post, days ...

Islamic State jihadists established a caliphate in 2014 after seizing a large swathe of territory in Iraq and Syria, but ...

Germany on Monday slammed Turkey's refusal to allow its lawmakers to visit a NATO base near Syria and warned it ...

Syria's regime is close to cementing its control over the entire capital under local deals with rebels after a six-year ...

"Three, two, one, action!" shouts Syrian refugee Mostafa Abdallah, 11, energetically directing his fellow child actors in a musical being ...

A new round of Syrian peace talks opens in Geneva on Tuesday, overshadowed by a competing process in Astana and ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday challenged US concerns over moving the American embassy to Jerusalem, in what Haaretz ...

Before dawn in the Indian Himalayas, scores of patients clutching small vials of urine queue patiently to see Yeshi Dhonden, ...

Saudi authorities blocked roads in a flashpoint Shiite town Saturday, residents said a day after security officials reported that gunmen ...

FIFA has been urged to ban Christian players from making the sign of the cross after scoring a goal. A ...

(COMBO) This combination of pictures shows a file photo of three Israeli paratroopers next to the Western Wall in Jerusalem's ...

More than 1,200 people including rebels left two opposition-held districts of Damascus on Friday under an agreement that will bring ...

A "huge" explosion in Pakistan's restive southwestern Balochistan province that apparently targeted a top official's convoy killed at least ten ...

The government of war-ravaged Yemen on Friday rejected a self-proclaimed autonomous body in the formerly independent south whose formation is ...