KAFR NASEH: In a squalid camp in northern Syria, children displaced by the country’s 13-year war played and splashed in mobile swimming pools run by volunteers, giving them much-needed relief from the scorching summer heat.Volunteers from the charity Smile Younited barely had time to set up the three pools in a busy square surrounded by […]
CAIRO/JERUSALEM: Negotiators for a ceasefire and hostage situation in the Gaza Strip discussed new compromise proposals in Cairo on Saturday, trying to bridge differences between Israel and Hamas, while the UN reported a deteriorating humanitarian situation, rising malnutrition and confirmed polio.Fifty people were killed in Israeli military strikes in Gaza on Saturday, Palestinian health authorities […]
LONDON: For twelve days in August 2014, the lives of the residents of the Yazidi village of Kocho hung in fearful limbo. In the early hours of August 3, Daesh fighters advanced west from Mosul and attacked the city of Sinjar and dozens of Yazidi villages south of the Sinjar Mountains in the northern Iraqi […]
