Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Saturday that Egypt would not give up its brothers in the Arab Gulf and that it would act to protect them if necessary. "Egypt will not give up its brothers in the Gulf," the Egyptian President said. "We will act to protect them if...

At least 30 people have died from H1N1 – so-called “swine flu” – in Turkey since 2014, Turkey’s highest Health Ministry official said on Monday. “We have collected a total of 4,300 samples from patients, out of which 366 were cases of H1N1, known as the swine flu,”...

The United Nations said on Thursday Islamic State forces may have committed genocide in trying to wipe out the Yazidi minority in Iraq as well as war crimes against civilians including children. In a report based on interviews with more than 100 alleged victims and witnesses, the...

As Syria descended further and further into a bloody civil war, Damascus-born clarinetist  Kinan Azmeh  found that he was unable to write new music. “Especially for the first year,” Azmeh, who lives in Brooklyn, said, “because there’s something much bigger happening than...