(Middle East Eye)- Dig deep in an English backyard and you might snaffle a stone arrowhead, and the odd bit of pottery. Do the same in Egypt and you could hit paydirt with a 25-foot colossus of an ancient god-king. That is exactly what happened on Thursday in Cairo, when a statue of ancient...

Three families who helped shelter former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in Hong Kong in 2013 after his mass leak of information about surveillance programs have asked Canada for asylum, their lawyer said Friday. The families - three Sri Lankan adults, a Filipina, and...

Car enthusiast Mohammed Mohiedin Anis gazes sadly at a 1955 Buick Super, one of his collection of vintage cars "wounded" in battles that ravaged the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Heavy bombardment of the eastern district of Shaar had blown massive chunks of concrete off a nearby...

Reporting  by Tareq Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- The first official court based on specific legal rules has been established in the city of Jarablus in northern of Syria after mutual agreement and coordination among all military factions and civil forces. Judge Abdul-Hai al-Taweel, the...