A young Palestinian woman is using music to amplify her homeland's voice amid the rubble of the Gaza Strip which has been devastated by an Israeli military onslaught. Rafah Naser, 19, has been playing guitar and singing songs of resilience and hope to draw global attention to the ongoing...

A Sudanese medical group said Friday that 22 civilians were killed and hundreds injured in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in southern Sudan. The Sudan Doctors Syndicate said RSF attacked eastern villages of Sennar State, including the Sheikh Al-Samani village, and...

MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — In sweltering temperatures, Muslim pilgrims in Mecca converged on a vast tent camp in the desert on Friday, officially opening  the annual Hajj pilgrimage . Ahead of their trip, they circled the cube-shaped Kaaba in the Grand Mosque, Islam’s holiest site....

DUBAI (AP) — Iran has started up new cascades of advanced centrifuges and plans to install others in the coming weeks after facing criticism over its nuclear program, the United Nations' atomic watchdog said Friday. The U.S. called the moves “nuclear escalations.” Spinning up new...