Hope and hate: How migrant influx has changed GermanyA decade after Germany opened its borders to a million migrants, the country grapples with the consequences. While some celebrate a more co...
29 Aug, 2025, 05.55 PM IST
Austria's new govt stopping family reunions immediately for migrantsAustria's government has temporarily halted family reunion procedures for migrants, citing limitations in absorption capacity and the need ...
12 Mar, 2025, 06.18 PM IST
Syrian literary icon Khaled Khalifa passes away at 59His American publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, confirmed the death. Friends said the cause was cardiac arrest.
14 Oct, 2023, 08.01 PM IST
Syrian children return to school amid deep economic crisisSince 2011, Syria has endured a bloody conflict that has claimed over half a million lives, displaced several million people and plunged th...
03 Sep, 2023, 11.26 PM IST
Turkey-Syria quake death toll rises above 35,000One week after the 7.8-magnitude tremor, Turkish media reported a handful of people were still being pulled from the rubble and increasingl...
14 Feb, 2023, 10.25 AM IST
Death toll tops 21,000 from Turkey-Syria quake as hopes fadeThe 7.8-magnitude quake struck early Monday as people slept, in a region where many had already suffered loss and displacement due to Syria...
10 Feb, 2023, 11.48 AM IST
Wish you a Meri Christmas! Here's how ancient India celebrated Christ’s birth'Burra Din' as it came to be called in India was celebrated very differently indeed in Syria-and it was not even on December 25! The animal...
24 Dec, 2022, 01.03 AM IST
Heavy snowfall, gales as winter storm hits Middle EastLarge parts of Syria were covered, including the capital of Damascus, which is witnessing this winter's first snowfall. Snow was as high as...
17 Feb, 2021, 09.12 PM IST
India expands outreach with Arab World; several engagements in pipelineEgypt’s prestigious Al-Azhar University has offered to open an India chapter, besides offering courses at its campus to Indian students sho...
03 Nov, 2017, 10.27 AM IST
Hillary Clinton's policy will mean 'generations of terrorism': Donald TrumpThe criticism came as Trump and Clinton blitzed the battleground states yesterday, with days to go for the election that will decide the ne...
05 Nov, 2016, 12.23 PM IST
Suspected leader of Paris attacks Abdelhamid Abaaoud boasted of crossing bordersHe had, he said, returned to Syria, despite his face having been well known to police thanks to a much-posted video of him driving a pick-u...
18 Nov, 2015, 08.17 PM IST
France to Syria: Journey of a western jihadiAn online profile of one of the men in a video posted by IS after mass shootings and suicide bombings in Paris shows how hard it is to pred...
16 Nov, 2015, 11.35 AM IST
Pakistan among global hotspots that poses tactical challenges: CIA"Developments in a host of countries across the globe are raising strategic and tactical challenges for policymakers and our Agency," CIA D...
14 Mar, 2015, 11.14 AM IST
Islamic State group recruits, exploits childrenAcross vast region under IS control, group is actively conscripting children for battle and committing abuses against most vulnerable at yo...
23 Nov, 2014, 04.56 PM IST
Here's how ISIS, world's wealthiest terrorist group makes millions every dayISIS allegedly sells much of its oil production to intermediaries in Syria, who then transport it to Turkey, Iran, and Kurdistan.
28 Aug, 2014, 01.08 PM IST
India-Israeli chef expands business in Singapore, MacauAn Indian-Israeli chef plans to open two new outlets in Singapore and Macau next month, aimed at popularising halal vegetarian Middle Easte...
29 Jun, 2013, 12.31 PM IST
- India votes for resolution on resumption of arms treaty talks
Seventeen countries abstained from voting. The arms trade talks had collapsed in July this year after the US said it needed more time to co...
26 Dec, 2012, 03.35 PM IST