In a humid room in the besieged Syrian town of Douma, Abu Nabil inspects the pearly white mushrooms sprouting from white sacks hanging from a ceiling. The oyster mushrooms poking out from holes in the bags are now a substitute for meat in the rebel stronghold, where a government blockade has...

( The New Arab )- It could be the lure of Bethlehem's Banksy hotel offering "the worst view in the world" that is attracting tourists in their thousands to the West Bank, but whatever has propelled Palestine to the top of the list of 2017's fastest-growing tourist destinations is helping bring...

Yemen's spiralling health crisis has forced organisations treating war-wounded to shift their focus to diseases "nobody should die of," the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday. In an interview with AFP in Beirut, the head of the ICRC's Yemen delegation, Alexandre Faite,...

Three rebels and one civilian were killed in violence in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, police said, two days after soldiers killed five fighters along the de-facto border with Pakistan. Inspector general of police Muneer Ahmed Khan said soldiers and police cordoned off a residential area...