(Zaman Al Wasl)- Muslims around the world celebrate the religious day of Ashura as a commemoration of the death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein. Ceremonies of this day are practiced in a bizarre and bloody way, in which men punish themselves and cause pain to themselves...

The leader of the Shia Houthi militia on Thursday accused the U.S. of planning an attack on Yemen’s Al-Hodeida province following a U.S. cruise missile strike one day earlier that targeted Houthi positions along Yemen’s Red Sea coast. In a statement broadcast by the Houthi-run Al-Maseera...

In a dank flat in southwestern France, 23-year-old Nasir stares at a living room wall bare except for a list of emergency numbers and contemplates life for his asylum-seeking family outside the migrant camp in Calais that had become home. Nasir volunteered his family for resettlement days...

As Hurricane Matthew roared across southwestern Haiti, Joselien Jean-Baptiste huddled with his family while the wind whipped at his little house. When it was finally safe to venture outside at dawn the 60-year-old farmer realized his troubles had only just begun. The storm knocked down part...