( The Wall Street Journal )- Before launching the battle to capture Islamic State’s de facto capital, the U.S.-led military coalition dropped leaflets calling on extremists to surrender. On the ground, militants were going door to door, demanding that residents pay their utility bills....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime figures released showed that females are more likely than men to register at the employment offices, and by a very large percentage. The number of men registering has decreased significantly.  Raed Neama, the head of the employment office at the...

For a people struggling to establish their own state, traditional food is an important part of the national heritage, and for Palestinians in the West Bank that goes well beyond the standard hummus. In Hebron, a biblical town in the Israeli-occupied Palestine, Eyad Abu Seena runs his...

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shiite mosque in Kabul Friday in what officials said was an ongoing attack, the latest violence to strike the Afghan capital. Kabul police spokesman Abdul Basir Mujahid told AFP a suicide bomber "detonated himself inside the mosque", adding that...