Tag: Geography of Asia

Israeli police on Tuesday closed a Palestinian research centre in Jerusalem and briefly arrested its director, a prominent cartographer, accusing ...

Dubai on Tuesday prepared to open its 11th annual art fair, billed as the largest contemporary art show in the ...

"Welcome to Idlib province!" the Syrian governor proclaims, seated in a converted classroom in Hama city some 90 kilometres (55 ...

Dozens of women staged a sit-in outside UN offices in Yemen's capital Tuesday demanding an end to the country's war ...

It was an encouraging initiative for a country not known for giving women a platform in public life. But when ...

Saudi Arabia is aiming for a major boost in female employment in the conservative Islamic kingdom but women need not ...

Nepal police Tuesday demolished the largest remaining settlement of people displaced by a powerful earthquake that struck nearly two years ...

The Syrian government intentionally bombed the Ain al-Fijeh spring in December, leaving more than five million people in Damascus without ...

A sea of tents stretches to the horizon at a camp for displaced near Mosul but Ahmed Hassan says he ...

Iraq's interior ministry is holding over 1,200 men and boys suspected of ties to jihadists in "horrendous conditions" without charge ...

The head of the main film festival in Saudi Arabia, where cinemas are banned, wants the government to invest in ...

Syria's government and opposition said Monday they had agreed a Russian-supervised deal to complete the evacuation of fighters and civilians ...

Syria's future will be decided only after "getting rid of extremists" and achieving political reconciliation, the country's President Bashar al-Assad ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday he had agreed to allow Chinese surveillance ships into Filipino waters, contradicting his defence ...

Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, three ...

Syria’s children “hit rock bottom” in 2016, with more killed than in any other year of the civil war, the ...

Violence against children in war-ravaged Syria was "at its worst" in 2016, the UN's children's agency said Monday as the ...

Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front on Sunday said in a statement it was behind twin bombings targeting Shiite ...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman arrived in Tokyo Sunday, making the first visit to Japan by a monarch from the oil-rich ...

It was once home to priceless archaeological treasures, but these days you get into Mosul museum in Iraq's second city ...