AKRE. Iraq (AP) — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and ...

A delegation of Druze religious elders from Syria crossed into Israel on Friday for the first such visit in more than 50 ...

Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on the horizon ...

The sudden change of power raised immediate concerns of a major confrontation between elements of the former opposition, which also include the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army, and the U.S ...

Iraq (AP) — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival ... Women wearing colorful dresses with gold and silver jewelry and men dressed in traditional outfits with wide belts ...

President Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria collapsed suddenly and spectacularly ... The regime has eased the enforcement of the mandatory dress code for women and relaxed restrictions on social ...

In Diyarbakir and the main cities in the Kurdish-majority southeast, thousands of people -- women in traditional dresses ... Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). When the SDF reached a deal with Damascus' ...

Emirati culture is conservative and, while there is no general dress code, you will find signs ... the Gulf, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. She is currently Gulf Bureau Chief based ...

In the second part of his address, Burns shifted the focus from Syria’s monuments to its current political tensions. He ...

A series of violent clashes in Syria points to both the lingering Russian ... 74 lashes for a song criticizing Iran’s mandatory dress code for women, ending a criminal case against him that ...