Umm Kulthum was known to be taciturn despite being a famous singer whose craft centred on words. She seldom gave interviews and rarely spoke to her…
Pep Boatella
It has been a busy few weeks for news in Türkiye, with a plethora of high-profile arrests and one tragedy—the fire in a ski resort that killed 78…
For the last 17 months, the figures emerging out of Gaza have been mind-numbing: 10,000 dead, 20,000 dead, 30,000, the grim milestones notching ever…
Day by day, the picture becomes clearer. Syria, once a captive, has now returned. Liberated from over five decades of captivity, it has reclaimed its…
Gaza's 'Great Return' and more from around the world
AFP
This aerial photo shows displaced Gazans walking toward Gaza City on January 27, 2025, after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip.
Eyad Baba / AFP
Displaced Palestinian children play near tents along a beach in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on January 22, 2025, on the fourth day of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
AFP
Mourners surround the flag-draped body of two-year-old Laila al-Khatib on January 26, 2025, a day after she succumbed to her wounds after being shot during an Israeli military raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
Samir Jordamovic / Getty
People vent their anger in the "rage room" to escape the stress of daily life by breaking things in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on January 25, 2025.
Nhac NGUYEN / AFP
This aerial picture shows a worker arranging dried incense sticks to dry in a courtyard in Quang Phu Cau village on the outskirts of Hanoi on January 21, 2025, ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations, known in Vietnam as Tet.
Nikolay DOYCHINOV / AFP
Dancers, known as Kukeri, wearing costumes perform during the International Festival of the Masquerade Games in Pernik, western Bulgaria, on January 25, 2025.
Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP
Indian soldiers march during the country’s 76th Republic Day parade in New Delhi on January 26, 2025.
AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP
Iraqi army soldiers rappel from a military helicopter flying near the golden domes of the shrine of the 8th-century Shiite Muslim Imam Musa al-Kadhim during the annual commemoration of his death on January 26, 2024, near Baghdad.
AP / Ethan Swope
Members of the Mexican National Guard patrol next to the US-Mexico border wall Saturday, January 25, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico.
Muhammed Abdullah Kurtar / Getty
Dancers of The Imperial Russian Ballet Company get ready before performing Tchaikovsky's classic work "Swan Lake" at ATO Congresium in Ankara, Türkiye on January 25, 2025.
Amid a broader move toward economic diversification in the Gulf region, Oman has launched several initiatives to invigorate its local labour force,…
The US presidential pendulum on terrorist designations has swung once again, with new President Donald Trump again branding the Houthi group in Yemen…
Türkiye is seen as one of the main geopolitical winners of regime change in Syria and is certainly one of the most influential in the country…
The global outlook in 2025 is increasingly fractured across geopolitical, environmental, societal, economic and technological domains, according to…
Syria’s future will likely be shaped by the two main groups now in control of its territory. They are Ahmed al-Sharaa's Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)…
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