Category: 3. Middle East

Tournament debutants Italy claimed their first-ever World Cup victory with a shock upset against Nepal in Mumbai.

Italy earned a…

DAMASCUS, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Owning a copy of Sayyid Qutb’s “Milestones” could land you in jail or worse in Syria when the Assads ruled. But at a Damascus book fair this month, the title by the radical Islamist ideologue was on prominent display…

ISLAMABAD, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will attend the first meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” next week in Washington, the country’s foreign office said on Thursday.

Under Trump’s Gaza plan,…

Syria’s defence ministry says its forces have taken control of the strategic base amid coordination with the US.

India vs Pakistan will go ahead at the T20 World Cup, co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka. After a week of uncertainty, quiet talks won out. This wasn’t just a fixture under threat, it was a test of power, money and governance in global…

By Miranda Murray

BERLIN, Feb 12 (Reuters) – German director Wim Wenders said on Thursday filmmakers must stay out of politics and focus on changing how people think, at the start of the Berlin Film Festival.

Considered more politically minded than…

Israeli authorities have allowed members of the Abu Shabab militia to help inspect Palestinians entering and leaving the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, the official Israeli broadcaster reported on…

In Syria’s Aleppo, an artists’ collective is bringing Syrians from different religious and political backgrounds together in a creative shared space. Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi had a look at how workshops, concerts and film…