Sudan and South Sudan signed deals on Thursday to secure their border and boost trade, a move which will restart crucial oil exports but fails to solve other conflicts left over from when the South seceded last year. The defense ministers of both cou
The U.N. refugee agency warned Thursday there could be as many as 700,000 Syrian refugees fleeing the war-torn nation by the end of the year as it stepped up its call for emergency funding, nearly four times its previous forecast. “There
They are a band of eight Syrian brothers, the youngest just 18 and the oldest 34, who have chosen to battle side by side for their nation against the powerful military of President Bashar al-Assad. Now they are in Aleppo, the northern comme
For many years, the tunnel economy in the Gaza Strip was a growing one. Around 1,000 tunnels were dug to smuggle goods, connecting the southern Gaza town of Rafah and the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. But since an August attack that killed 16 Egyptian border
Egypt sees no reason to make changes to its peace treaty with Israel, presidential spokesman Yasser Ali said in statements carried Thursday by the state-owned paper al-Ahram. “There is no need for the moment to amend the Camp David agre
قال نشطاء سوريون إن عشرين شخصا بينهم طفل وامرأة قتلوا اليوم في قصفٍ لقوات النظام السوري على مناطق مختلفة من البلاد معظمهم في محافظة حلب، بين
The topless duchess, the dying diplomat, cartoons of the Prophet and photographs of a secretive filmmaker. News coverage of all four have been a lightning rod for the debate about privacy, decency, tolerance, the right to publish and self-restraint.
Saudi Arabia will start reissuing employment visas after imposing a ban on hiring Filipino and Indonesian maids in July, last year. The lifting of the ban is set to start October 1st, according to Prince Khaled bin Saud bin Khaled, assistant foreign mini