Middle East
From Afghanistan to the World Cup, Tiny, Wealthy Qatar is stepping down
DOHA, Qatar — When chaos took over the United States' last-minute efforts to evacuate more than 120,000 of its...
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Manhunt underway after 6 Palestinians escape Israeli prison
JERUSALEM - Six Palestinian prisoners escaped from a prison in northern Israel early Monday morning, the first such escape...
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Palestinian Authority charges 14 members of security forces over activist’s death
HEBRON, West Bank - Fourteen members of the Palestinian Authority's security services were charged with beating to death an...
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Twins Merged Head Separated in Israel
Surgeons in Israel have separated 1-year-old twins who were attached to the head, the first time the unusual surgery...
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The first Afghan Rhodes scholar saved her father and wants to do more
OXFORD, England – Five days after the Taliban took Kabul, Summia Tora began to fear that her father would...
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Putting pieces of Beirut’s past back together
LONDON - The catastrophic explosion that rocked Beirut last August left more than 200 people dead and thousands injured....
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Threats and fear cause Afghan women’s protections to ‘disappear overnight’
It took Women for Afghan Women years to build the largest network of women's protection services in Afghanistan -...
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Refugees suffer. This novelist won’t look away.
But he doesn't disappear from the story. An unnamed author potters around the margins of the novel, and his...
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The Taliban celebrate victory, with a looming crisis
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban celebrated a full-scale victory on Tuesday, achieving a goal they had cherished for two...
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As the death toll from bombing rises, desperate Afghans seek every exit
Hundreds of Afghans desperate for the Taliban continued to crowd Kabul's airport on Friday, even after one of the...
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