Gaining a landslide victory in India’s general election, Narendra Modi Thursday has sworn in as the prime minister of the country for a second consecutive term in Delhi. Modi and his ministers took their oaths of office before President Ramnath Kovind in a ceremony attended by more than...

For months, Alia Ali endured the din of fighting in Iraq's second city Mosul. Then a missile slammed into her home, killing her husband and her hearing. The 59-year-old lost her sense of sound in the final phase of the ferocious battle between government forces and jihadists of the Islamic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- From the central city of Homs to a forgotten camp  on the Greek-Albanian border, a long journey fraught with dangers and pain, where Mohamed Al-Mohamed fought his pain and injuries, that he got in and out of the besieged Homs years ago and made him disabled. At the...

Peering through the gate of a home in the western suburbs of Libya's war-torn capital, seven-year-old Chehab shyly looked on as children streamed down the nearby street. "I'll just play by myself," he muttered, holding a ball under one arm. "I don't know anyone in this neighbourhood."...