Eid al-Fitr, however, will be celebrated Monday in Oman, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Algeria and Tunisia as the new moon could not be sighted. Iraq’s Sunni and Shia Muslims will also mark the festival on ...

He seemed not to have given much attention to ethnicity which would – and in Pakistan's case did – stand in the way of nation building. He himself belonged to a small ethnic group called the Khojas ...

In these troubled times, this is arguably one contest that can help bring much needed peace and other blessings to the world, ...

Almost a century ago, on October 15, 1927, the forerunner of BP struck oil at Kirkuk in northern Iraq. An uncontrollable fountain of oil, 95,000 barrels per day, shot into the air for 10 days, ...

Syria's new government, dominated by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's inner circle, faces the daunting challenge of ...