Search For Keyword.

Search (near)

Libya's displaced struggle for shelter as fighting drags on

 After fleeing an advance by eastern-based forces on Tripoli, 80-year-old Mabrouka al-Twati and her daughter spent days sleeping rough in the Libyan capital. Now they are in a shelter where sheets cover broken windows and two desks serve as a kitchen. As a military offensive on Tripoli...

More than 30 dead in stampede at Iraqi Shiite shrine

More than 30 pilgrims died and dozens were injured Tuesday in a stampede at a major shrine in the Iraqi city of Karbala on the Shiite holy day of Ashura. It is Iraq's deadliest stampede in recent history during Ashura, whose commemorative marches had previously been targeted by Sunni...

277 Palestinian Refugees affiliated with PLA killed in Syria

In statistics released on the 55th founding anniversary of the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), Action Group for Palestinians of Syria AGPS found out that 277 Palestinian refugees fighting alongside PLA forces were pronounced dead since the outbreak of the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic....

Air strikes hit Syria ceasefire zone: monitor

Air strikes hit a part of northwest Syria for the first time since a ceasefire was declared 10 days ago, a war monitor and rebel group spokesman said Tuesday. Syrian regime forces and their Russian allies unilaterally agreed a truce on Aug. 31 in opposition-controlled Idlib, where a...