Standing barefoot on an Israeli beach, Hamama Jarban blew her whistle and watched her students race towards the water clutching their colorful surfboards. Each weekend she welcomes enthusiastic would-be surfers to the shore, teaching them how to lie and then stand on their boards. "I am...

The UN nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors called on Iran Friday to stop denying the agency access to two suspected former sites and to cooperate fully with it, diplomats attending the meeting said. A resolution, adopted in a vote called after China expressed opposition to it,...

Turkish bombardment has killed a Kurdish shepherd in northern Iraq, a local official said on Friday, the first known civilian victim of Ankara's air and ground assault on the region. The official from Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, Ihsan Chalabi, told AFP the shepherd was killed early...

For generations, the people of Fasayil herded animals on the desert bluffs and palm-shaded lowlands of the Jordan Valley. Today, nearly every man in the Palestinian village works for Jewish settlers in the sprawling modern farms to the north and south. The grazing lands to the west and...