After joining IS aged 15, German woman asks to go home

AFP | Four years after leaving Germany to live under the Islamic State group, 19-year-old Leonora has fled the jihadists' last bastion in eastern Syria...

Iran: One Revolutionary guard killed, five injured in militant attack

AFP | A member of Iran´s elite Revolutionary Guards was killed and five wounded in an armed attack in the restive southeast on Saturday, the...

Yemen’s abandoned churches, remnants of a fading past

AFP | Vandalised, caught in the crossfire, burnt to the ground: Yemen's churches, once filled by small but diverse Christian communities, are now abandoned after...

A struggle for rule of law: Detained Bahraini footballer catapults Thailand to centre stage – James M. Dorsey

Dr. James M. Dorsey | Mounting pressure on Thailand to release from detention soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi has not only refocussed international attention on alleged...

Pope Francis in historic Arabian Peninsula visit

AFP | Pope Francis is set for a historic trip to the UAE, the first-ever papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula, as he seeks to...

Catholicism in the Arabian Peninsula

AFP | Pope Francis's three-day trip to the United Arab Emirates Sunday marks the first time a pontiff has ever visited the conservative Muslim Arabian...

Displaced Syrian children sift through trash to buy bread

AFP | Outside a camp for the displaced in northwest Syria, 15-year-old Sabaa al-Jassim hacked away at a mountain of trash hoping to find scraps...

For Yemenis, shaky truce not much different from war

AFP | Yemeni medics scrambled to save a 20-year-old woman after a sniper's bullet tore a gash in her scalp in the port city of...

Support for US Iran policy out of left field: China dramatically reduces trade with Tehran – Dr James M Dorsey

Dr James M Dorsey | China has dramatically reduced its trade with Iran in line with US sanctions, raising questions whether Iran will remain committed to...

French jihadists in Syria may be allowed home, Paris says

AFP | France on Tuesday opened the door to repatriating more than a hundred jihadists being held in Syria, in a marked change in stance...

Khomeini: father of Iran’s Islamic Republic

AFP | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was an austere and charismatic cleric who became an icon of the 21st century for standing against the West and...

‘Flight of the revolution’: the Ayatollah’s return to Iran

AFP | In the dead of night on February 1, 1979, Iran's revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took off for Tehran from Paris onboard a...
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