Desperate Syrians in eastern Ghouta had to come up with creative ways to meet basic needs and avoid starvation when regime forces in 2013 imposed a crippling siege on them. Omar Mubarak, an English teacher in the region's Hawsh al-Dawahira village, built a biogas project that helped provide...

The Gaza municipality is clearing the rubble left behind by 11 days of incessant Israeli bombing on the blockaded coastal enclave. The municipality workers are collecting waste and reopening roads to facilitate the passage of ambulances and other vehicles, said Majed Sukkar, a senior...

Iraqi President Barham Salih said on Sunday that a total of $150 billion have been smuggled outside Iraq since 2003. "Government and international statistics and data estimate that Iraq’s financial revenues from oil since 2003 are close to $1 trillion," Salih said in a televised...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The sight of hundreds of migrants swimming or climbing fences separating the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from the rest of Africa this week is a stark reminder of just how dependent the European Union can be on the whims of countries it chooses to pay to enforce its migration...