Fahamiya Shamasneh, a 75-year-old Palestinian woman, refuses to pack her things despite a looming deadline for evacuating the home she has lived in for more than 50 years. Israel's supreme court has ruled the family have until Wednesday to vacate the house in annexed east Jerusalem. The...

Iraqi troops have found a mass grave in the western city of Ramadi containing the bodies of 40 men believed to have been executed by Daesh (ISIS), officials said Friday. It is the latest of dozens of such grisly finds made by Iraqi forces since they drove the extremists out of the swathes of...

Food access in Syria's battle-torn Raqqa is now at "a critical turning point," aid organisations said Monday, with markets shuttered and residents depending fully on their dwindling stockpiles. Raqqa has been gripped by fierce fighting for nearly two months and the U.S.-backed Syrian...

( The Globe and Mail )- At 2 a.m. in the midst of Ramadan in 2012, Mohamed Sharbaji got a call from a neighbour of his Aleppo home: “There are men with guns in your house.” In the moment before that conversation, Mr. Sharbaji was a man of influence. A former business owner and land...