Tradition dictates that Muslims donate cuts of mutton during Friday's Eid al-Adha festival, which would spell brisk business for butcher Abdulrazak Darwish but Lebanon's economic crisis has cast a pall over his trade. "This year has been the worst for us because of soaring inflation," said...

Thirty years have passed since Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein invaded neighbouring Kuwait, but despite hints of a diplomatic rapprochement, people in both countries say the wounds have yet to heal. On August 2, 1990, Saddam sent his military, already exhausted by an eight-year conflict with...

Human Rights Watch called on the Turkish government Wednesday to investigate "serious abuses" allegedly committed by police and "nightwatchmen" against more than a dozen people in the southeast and in Istanbul. "The cases illustrate a worrying pattern of violent arrest, beatings, and other...

Israeli police arrested two prominent Palestinian cultural leaders Wednesday at their home in east Jerusalem on a suspicion of "funding terrorism", their lawyer and police said. Rania Elias, who heads the Yabous Cultural Centre and her husband Suhail Khoury, Director General of the Edward...